Overview

This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices in heritage management, using perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture. Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the identification, protection, and interpretation of archaeological sites, historic structures, cultural artifacts, and other elements of cultural heritage both tangible and intangible. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Scott Anfinson presents a comprehensive overview of American heritage management, as well as a new chapter on international heritage management. This second edition also includes discussion of new guidelines for traditional cultural properties (TCPs) and new regulations implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). It has an expanded discussion of Indigenous aspects of CHM including US Pacific Island and Caribbean territories. It also expands the discussion of intangible cultural resources. While emphasizing that the American CHM system in law and practice is currently focused almost exclusively on tangible aspects, intangible aspects are critically important to many communities and help explain the nature of tangible manifestations and how they are deemed significant. The main purposes of this second edition remain the same as the first edition: to help teach the basics of CHM to the next generation of professionals and to provide current professionals with a detailed overview of the American system.. Unlike other textbooks, Anfinson’s book covers all three major CHM professions: archaeology, history, and architecture, as well as presenting a full chapter on the history of American CHM. The book chapters cover definitions; a historical background to provide essential context; the legal and procedural framework of the American federal CHM system; the principal professional players in American CHM; Indigenous aspects; international CHM; practical perspectives and critical evaluations of important aspects of and problems with the current American CHM system, with suggestions for improvement.

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Practical Heritage Management: A Reasonable and Good Faith Effort by Scott F. Anfinson more than meets the need for a textbook for students and young professionals. It demonstrates to everyone who should become involved in what discussions, when, and why. No single way of doing things is correct; not all are appropriate. Thoughtful solutions are possible, however. Drawing on 40 years of experience teaching Heritage Management at the University of Minnesota and serving as State Archaeologist, this is a remarkably insightful, authoritative work by a seasoned expert. It will become a valued reference. -- Michael A. Tomlan, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning, Cornell University

""A - I am excited to adopt this book in my class and the proposal for revisions to a 2nd edition are excellent!"" --ennifer Birch, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, Editor, Society for American Archaeology Press ""B+. I believe the book should have a second edition, but not without more editing and redesign than the author's proposal proposes."" --Peter B. Dedek, Professor, Public History, Department of History, Texas State University ""A - I currently use the first edition of this book and have recommended it to the professor who teaches an undergraduate course on historic preservation policies. I adopted the book and continue to use it as the author focuses on HP through an archaeological perspective."" --Ramie Gougeon, Chair and Professor, Anthropology, University of West Florida ""B: I think this text will be attractive to some, and I appreciate the intent to update ""new aspects of professional ethics originating with diversity and social justice concerns; applicable historical events since 2017; changes in professional practice due to innovations and new technology""."" --Kirsten Vacca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu

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Scott F. Anfinson is a former Minnesota State Archaeologist. Prior to that he directed a highway archaeology survey for the Minnesota Historical Society and was the archaeologist for the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, helping to implement the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 and nominating properties to the National Register of Historic Places. He taught cultural heritage management at the University of Minnesota for 15 years. He has been awarded two Fulbright Research Grants to study Norwegian heritage management at the University of Oslo. Anfinson has written and edited numerous publications including Practical Heritage Management: Preserving a Tangible Past (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Manual for Archaeological Projects in Minnesota (office of the State Archaeologist 2011), Southwestern Minnesota Archaeology (Minnesota Historical Society Press 1997), The Archaeology of the Central Minneapolis Riverfront (The Minnesota Archaeologist 1989, 1990), and A Handbook of Minnesota Prehistoric Ceramics (Minnesota Archaeological Society 1978). He has served as president of the Council for Minnesota Archaeology, editor of The Minnesota Archaeologist, director of the Minnesota Shipwreck Survey, and principal director of the Minnesota Statewide Survey of Historical and Archaeological Sites.

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