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Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans

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The Balkan Peninsula is known for its messy mix of culture, language, and religion. It is, and always has been, a crossroads and, for most of its history, contested territory. The region’s jumbled past makes studying its landscape and built environment, and managing its cultural heritage resources, a difficult, politically charged process. Both in ancient times and recently, central powers have used heritage in creative ways to contest and undercut rival claims to land and move boundaries.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, 39210, USA

    Michael L. Galaty

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Galaty, M.L. (2011). Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans. In: Silverman, H. (eds) Contested Cultural Heritage. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7305-4_4

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