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Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of t... more Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain social identity, a role problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse and authoritative collection brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications for the management of archaeological heritage in global society.
With contributions by authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including archaeologists, philosophers, cultural historians and custodians of cultural heritage, the volume explores a rich mix of contrasting, yet complementary, viewpoints and approaches. Among the topics discussed are the relations between culture and identity; the potentialities of museums and monuments to support or subvert a people’s sense of who they are; and how cultural heritage has been used to bring together communities containing people of different origins and traditions, yet without erasing or blurring their distinctive cultural features.
Papers by Geoffrey F. Scarre
Contents: Prefatory note The idea of evil The nature of forgiveness Forgiveness and utility Some ... more Contents: Prefatory note The idea of evil The nature of forgiveness Forgiveness and utility Some problems about forgiveness Mercy Revenge and resentment The good of punishment Punishment, excuses and mitigating conditions Moral responsibility and the Holocaust Punishment, pardon and time lapse Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 19, 2006
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, 2007
Library & Information History, Jul 3, 2017
The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race': W.E. Gladstone on the keeping of books. In a ret... more The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race': W.E. Gladstone on the keeping of books. In a retrospect published in 1906, Mary Drew (née Gladstone) observed of the late Liberal Prime Minister that '[s]o human and personal did any book seem to Mr Gladstone that it gave him real pain to see it carelessly used or ill-treated'. 1 For William Ewart Gladstone, writing in The Nineteenth Century in June 1890, a bookany book-'consists, like man from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul'. 2 This might at first seem no more than a flowery way of saying that a book can be thought of as informational content embodied in some physical form, which in his day for the most part meant printed paper. But this would be too reductive a reading of Gladstone's meaning. In the article from which I have quoted Gladstone proceeds to say that 'books are the voices of the dead. They are a main instrument of communication with the vast human procession of the other world. They are the allies of the thought of man.' 3 As such, they are thingsbeings, ratherworthy of our love, representatives of the dead (or of the living, in the case of current authors). Like human beings, books present an outward appearance: a volume's binding or cover is 'the dress, with which it walks out into the world'. 4 Books teach and instruct, entertain and comfort us, and are 'second to none, as friends to the individual'; in their company, no one can feel lonely. 5 This is an undeniably romantic and anthropomorphised view of books and it may be thought that Gladstone comes close to eliding the distinction between a book and its author. A book may be an attractive and sometimes a valuable physical object but, unless it is one of the shrieking books in the Restricted Section of the Library at Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter stories, it does not literally talk to us or have a voice. It is authors who speak to us through their books, and books are simply the medium through which meaning is conveyed. In describing books as instruments of communication with the dead, Gladstone duly acknowledges this middleman role but in referring to them as our 'dear old friends' he seems to merge the medium with the author. 6 Is the book itself so very special and worthy of our love? Is it not rather the author who deserves our affection, respect, admiration or gratitude? Yet the fact is that for those of us who read andyeslove books, it is impossible to look on them as mere functional
Routledge eBooks, Jul 15, 2019
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of t... more Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain social identity, a role problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse and authoritative collection brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications for the management of archaeological heritage in global society.
With contributions by authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including archaeologists, philosophers, cultural historians and custodians of cultural heritage, the volume explores a rich mix of contrasting, yet complementary, viewpoints and approaches. Among the topics discussed are the relations between culture and identity; the potentialities of museums and monuments to support or subvert a people’s sense of who they are; and how cultural heritage has been used to bring together communities containing people of different origins and traditions, yet without erasing or blurring their distinctive cultural features.
Contents: Prefatory note The idea of evil The nature of forgiveness Forgiveness and utility Some ... more Contents: Prefatory note The idea of evil The nature of forgiveness Forgiveness and utility Some problems about forgiveness Mercy Revenge and resentment The good of punishment Punishment, excuses and mitigating conditions Moral responsibility and the Holocaust Punishment, pardon and time lapse Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 19, 2006
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, 2007
Library & Information History, Jul 3, 2017
The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race': W.E. Gladstone on the keeping of books. In a ret... more The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race': W.E. Gladstone on the keeping of books. In a retrospect published in 1906, Mary Drew (née Gladstone) observed of the late Liberal Prime Minister that '[s]o human and personal did any book seem to Mr Gladstone that it gave him real pain to see it carelessly used or ill-treated'. 1 For William Ewart Gladstone, writing in The Nineteenth Century in June 1890, a bookany book-'consists, like man from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul'. 2 This might at first seem no more than a flowery way of saying that a book can be thought of as informational content embodied in some physical form, which in his day for the most part meant printed paper. But this would be too reductive a reading of Gladstone's meaning. In the article from which I have quoted Gladstone proceeds to say that 'books are the voices of the dead. They are a main instrument of communication with the vast human procession of the other world. They are the allies of the thought of man.' 3 As such, they are thingsbeings, ratherworthy of our love, representatives of the dead (or of the living, in the case of current authors). Like human beings, books present an outward appearance: a volume's binding or cover is 'the dress, with which it walks out into the world'. 4 Books teach and instruct, entertain and comfort us, and are 'second to none, as friends to the individual'; in their company, no one can feel lonely. 5 This is an undeniably romantic and anthropomorphised view of books and it may be thought that Gladstone comes close to eliding the distinction between a book and its author. A book may be an attractive and sometimes a valuable physical object but, unless it is one of the shrieking books in the Restricted Section of the Library at Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter stories, it does not literally talk to us or have a voice. It is authors who speak to us through their books, and books are simply the medium through which meaning is conveyed. In describing books as instruments of communication with the dead, Gladstone duly acknowledges this middleman role but in referring to them as our 'dear old friends' he seems to merge the medium with the author. 6 Is the book itself so very special and worthy of our love? Is it not rather the author who deserves our affection, respect, admiration or gratitude? Yet the fact is that for those of us who read andyeslove books, it is impossible to look on them as mere functional
Routledge eBooks, Jul 15, 2019
The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind.... more The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind. The vision of the elderly crone begging for charity at the crossroads, an object of fear and revulsion for her local community, has combined with the memory of prolonged judicial persecution and oppression to inspire contemporary movements as far removed from each other as Wiccans and women’s liberation. In tackling such an emotive issue, where misogyny and violence combine with superstition and the basest of human instincts, Scarre and Callow chart a clear and refreshingly level-headed approach to the subject. Distinguishing between fact and fiction, they set the witch trials firnly back within the context of their own times and, without seeking to exonerate those responsible, demonstrate how it was possible for judiciaries and social elites to believe wholeheartedly in the reality and efficacy of witchcraft as a valid system of belief and as a dangerous threat to the fabric of society in which they lived. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to take account of the vast expansion in interest and scholarly research that has taken place in the field since the publication of the first edition. This work provides a provocative thesis for those seeking to understand the basis for the politics of persecution and a firm interpretative basis around which further exploratory research may be conducted.