Publications

A selection of the Coherit team's writings on cultural heritage theory and method including heritage tourism, community engagement, and historic preservation.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice

Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman, 2018

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Heritage places: Evolving conceptions and changing forms

Neil Asher Silberman, Chapter 2 of A Companion to Heritage Studies, 2015

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Dubai
Light at the End of the Labyrinth? From Historic Preservation to Heritage Placemaking

Neil Asher Silberman, presentation at the seminar “Urban Conservation and Reconstruction in the Arabian Gulf,” Dubai, 2015

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People and communities
Remembrance of Things Past: Collective Memory, Sensory Perception, and the Emergence of New Interpretive Paradigms

Neil Asher Silberman, in People and communities: Proceedings of Second International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage, Alicia Castillo (ed.), 2015.

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Behind the Pixel Poster
What Are Memories Made of? The Untapped Power of Digital Heritage

Neil Asher Silberman, Presented at the workshop "Behind the Pixel: practices and Concepts behind VR" Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 14 December 2015

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Changing Visions of Heritage Value: What Role Should the Experts Play?

Neil Asher Silberman, Ethnologies vol 36 no 1, 2014

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Chapter 1
An Anthropology of Shared Heritage

Angela M. Labrador, in Shared Heritage: An Anthropological Theory and Methodology for Assessing, Enhancing, and Communicating a Future-oriented Social Ethic of Heritage Protection PhD Dissertation, UMass Amherst, 2013

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Heritage & Society
Conservation Philosophy and its Development: Changing Understandings of Authenticity and Significance

Gustavo F. Araoz, in Heritage & Society, vol 6, 2013

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Heritage Interpretation as Public Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm

Neil Asher Silberman, in Understanding Heritage: Perspectives in Heritage Studies, 2013

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Mobilizing Shared Heritage Frameworks

Angela M. Labrador, in Shared Heritage: An Anthropological Theory and Methodology for Assessing, Enhancing, and Communicating a Future-oriented Social Ethic of Heritage Protection PhD Dissertation, UMass Amherst, 2013

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Picturing Shared Heritage

Angela M. Labrador, in Shared Heritage: An Anthropological Theory and Methodology for Assessing, Enhancing, and Communicating a Future-oriented Social Ethic of Heritage Protection PhD Dissertation, UMass Amherst, 2013

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Entrusting the Commons: Agricultural Land Conservation and Shared Heritage Protection

Angela M. Labrador, in Heritage & Society, vol 5, 2012

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Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?

Neil Asher Silberman, in International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 18 no 3, 2012

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Ontologies of the Future and Interfaces for All: Archaeological Databases for the Twenty-First Century

Angela M. Labrador, in Archaeologies, vol 8 no 3, 2012

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The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology

Edited by Neil Asher Silberman, 2012

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Farming Williamsburg
Farming Williamsburg: A Collaborative Oral History Project of Williamsburg's Agrarian Past

Angela M. Labrador, Poster exhibited in Williamsburg MA, 2011

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Preserving heritage places under a new paradigm

Gustavo F. Araoz, in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, vol 1 no 1, 2011

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Museum International
Vistas in Common: Sharing Stories about Heritage Landscapes

Angela M. Labrador, in Museum International vol 63, 2011

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Between Home and History
Between Home and History

Neil Asher Silberman, Panelist, International Institute of Conservation Round Table, 2010

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CAA Proceedings
Re-locating Meaning in Heritage Archives: A Call for Participatory Heritage Databases

Angela M. Labrador and Elizabeth S. Chilton, in Proceedings of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, 2010

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Process Not Product: The ICOMOS Ename Charter (2008) and the Practice of Heritage Stewardship

Neil Asher Silberman, in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship vol 10, 2009

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Heritage Classifications and the Need to Adjust Them to Emerging Paradigms: the United States Experience

Gustavo F. Araoz, in Values and Criteria in Heritage Conservation, A. Tomaszewski (ed.), 2008

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World-Heritage Historic Urban Landscapes: Defining and Protecting Authenticity

Gustavo F. Araoz, in APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology vol 39, no 2/3, 2008

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Lost in the Labyrinth: Mapping the Path to Where Heritage Significance Lies

Gustavo F. Araoz, in Interpreting the Past V/1: The Future of Heritage, eds. Neil Silberman and Claudia Liuzza, 2007

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People and communities
The ICOMOS–Ename Charter Initiative: Rethinking the Role of Heritage Interpretation in the 21st Century

Neil Asher Silberman, in George Wright Forum vol 23 no 1, 2006

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George Wright Forum
Some Background Musings on the Need for an ICOMOS-Ename Charter for the Interpretation of Cultural Heritage Sites

Gustavo F. Araoz, in George Wright Forum vol 23 no 1, 2006

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