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Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place

Yarrow, T.

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H Brown
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A Reed
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Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic research with heritage professionals in Scotland, the essay explores meetings as organizational devices for differentiating and relating various forms of epistemic, social, and material context. The account describes how the bureaucratic ideal of institutional consistency is achieved through staged encounters between the perspectives of the various people who meet, and the buildings that are the objects of their meeting. These ethnographic examples are used to develop two linked points. Firstly, it is suggested that the lens of ‘meeting’ complicates the relatively monolithic characterizations of heritage expertise evident in widely influential deconstructive critiques of heritage practice. Secondly, it is argued that heritage practitioners’ own accounts of these negotiations highlight material and spatial dimensions of bureaucratic conduct that have that have received relatively little ethnographic attention in prevalent textually orientated accounts.

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Yarrow, T. (2017). Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 20, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 20, 2017
Publication Date Apr 1, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 20, 2019
Journal Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Print ISSN 1359-0987
Electronic ISSN 1467-9655
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue S1
Pages 95-109
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1362932

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Yarrow, T. (2017). Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective and place. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(S1): 95-109, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.






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