A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities in preserving cultural heritages worldwide. * Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field of cultural resource management, with contributions by a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, architectural historians, museum curators, historians, and representatives of affected groups * Offers a broad view of cultural resource management that includes archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic structures, shipwrecks, scientific and technological sites and objects, as well as intangible resources such as language, religion, and cultural values * Highlights the realities that face CRM practitioners "on the ground"

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InhaltsangabeNotes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: General Classes of Cultural Resources Part II: Special Types of Cultural Resources Part III: Perspectives on Cultural Resource Management Part IV: Legal, Administrative, and Practical Contexts Index

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Acknowledgements. Contributor Biographies. Introduction. 1. Studying and Evaluation the Built Environment. 2. Principles of Architectural Preservation. 3. Archaeology of the Distant Past. 4. Archaeological Sites of the Recent Past. 5. Space, Place and Landscape: Geographies of Cultural Resource Management. 6. Where Nature and Culture Meet: Managing Culturally Significant Natural Resources. 7. History as a Cultural Resource. 8. "This Belongs in a Museum?" Portable Cultural Property. 9. Values are in the Mind: "Intangible" Cultural Resources. 10. Religious Belief and Practice. 11. Managing Language as an Integrated Cultural Resource. 12. In Too Deep: Challenges of Maritime Archaeology. 13. Keeping Historic Watercraft Afloat. 14. Enfants Terribles - Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft. 15. Studying and Managing Aerospace Crash Sites. 16. Rockets, Tang(tm), and Telescopes: Evaluating and Managing Technical and Scientific Properties. 17. Fields of Conflict. 18. Managing Our Military Heritage. 19. All in Line: The Challenge of Linear Resources and Linear Projects. 20. Rock Art as Cultural Resource. 21. Consultation in Cultural Resource Management: An Indigenous Perspective. 22. Where We''re From: The Perspective of a Displaced People. 23. The Legal Melange. 24. International Variety in CRM. 25. Consultation and Negotiation. 26. CRM in a United States Government Agency: Some Thoughts on Surviving and Succeeding While Working for Federal Land Managing Agencies. 27. Making a Living in CRM: First, A Discouraging Word. 28. The Historic Built Environment: A Planning Perspective from the Western United States. 29. Cultural Resource Management at War. The Military and Anthropologists in Iraq, 2004-2007: Discovering Shared Interests and Values. 30. A Future for Cultural Resource Management?