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Heritage management as postprocessual archaeology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Laurajane Smith
Laurajane Smith*
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School of Art and Cultural Heritage, Charles Sturt University, PO Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia
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The postmodern, or ‘postprocessual’, tendency in contemporary archaeology pays much attention in its rhetoric to that wider public, that wider constituency whose views of the past may not match much or at all with the academics. What happens when the realities of archaeology in the real world meet with those of postmodern theory?

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 259 , June 1994 , pp. 300 - 309
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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