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Sweden: Cultural Heritage Management

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Introduction

Heritage management in Sweden has a long history dating back to at least. This history can be viewed from two perspectives – continuity or discontinuity. The first perspective is the official view, but not without problems. When viewed as a continuing enterprise, heritage management becomes a heritage in itself. This keeps the power over heritage linked to authorities claiming long historical continuity, which conserves the management of Swedish heritage. I will therefore approach Swedish heritage management from the second perspective, namely, discontinuity. Viewed from this point, heritage management can be seen as contextual and dynamic and closely linked to an active society that has a need and desire for heritage because of political and social reasons. Heritage management in Sweden is the history of its legislation, of those institutions that have been and are responsible, and the country’s position in a broader context, at first in a European context and later in a...

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Hegardt, J. (2014). Sweden: Cultural Heritage Management. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1426

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