This 47th volume of the ASLU series focuses on the practical challenges of managing a World Heritage listed historic city in a South Asian context. The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort, a walled town, identified as the best-preserved colonial fort in South Asia, is the subject of this study. The book analyses the costs and benefits of the fort’s World Heritage recognition to its local urban community and to the colonial fort itself, as a monument. It shows how thirty years of...

El pueblo ayuuk es uno de los pueblos indígenas de México que ha preservado hasta hoy día gran parte de su patrimonio cultural y lingüístico. En este trabajo presentamos un análisis de su concepción espacio-temporal, su sistema de cómputo del tiempo y su pensamiento religioso, los cuales rigen la vida social y espiritual de este pueblo.

A casi 500 años de la invasión europea y el inicio de la colonización y la evangelización -aunadas las políticas asimilacionistas impuestas por e...

The heritage of Indigenous Peoples has long been researched and commented upon from the outside. This book adopts an innovative approach by engaging with the heritage of Indigenous Peoples from the 'inside'.

On 13th September 2007, member states of the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a momentous occasion marking wide political recognition of Indigenous Peoples' rights. Ten years on, this book explores the areas -both substantive and geogr...

The Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries

The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to "read" the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Medit...

Dit volume in de ASLU-serie bestudeert Frankische kastelen met als doel het in kaart brengen van de relatie van de toenmalige bewoners met de geconstrueerde ruimte. Dit onderzoek biedt nieuwe inzichten in het functioneren van het fort, zowel in de functie als bescherming tegen vijandige machten, als de invloed van het gebouw op het gedrag van de bewoners binnen de muren van deze kastelen.

- Met een uitgeklede versie van dit werk won Eva Mol de Leidse Universitaire Scriptieprijs in het jaar 20...

Este trabajo integra la memoria oral y documental de las comunidades nauas

de México con el conocimiento, en el seno familiar, de los discursos, las

rogativas y los rituales que se siguen celebrando y la visión del mundo desde

los ojos, los corazones y los rostros de los tlamatque ("sabios").

La investigación consistió en un acercamiento al mundo religioso de la

cultura naua contemporánea, tanto en la comunidad de Santa Catarina

Acaxochitlan (Hidalgo) como en la región naua de Tlaxcala (de do...

This volume of the ASLU series examines perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in southern Africa and proposes new management approaches to advance protection and public engagement. By redefining the maritime historical narratives in countries that have predominantly interpreted their maritime past through colonial shipwrecks, it is possible to create an environment in which stakeholders become active participants in heritage management. The application of a broad ma...

Este trabajo documenta e interpreta el patrimonio cultural saa (zapoteco) de los Bene Ya’a/En’ne I’ya, los habitantes zapotecos de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Dicho patrimonio es estudiado a partir de los símbolos transmitidos por las personas encargadas de los rituales, weneya’a— las personas « que hablan con los cerros ».

Los individuos weneya’a transmiten valores culturales fundamentales de sus comunidades y son indispensables para la identidad y la cultura de los Bene Ya’a...

The work of Fernand Braudel (1949) should have revolutionized the way archaeology conceptualizes temporal scales and builds chronological narratives. Even though Braudel’s general views did impact archaeological theory deeply, his three different time-scales, together with insights into duration as the inner dialectic between different temporalities, remain neglected in archaeological practice.

Nowadays, ceramic chronology building in archaeology still relies on two main variables: time-spa...

Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the mayor topics in archaeological research. Designating place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways: geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book is based on the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people sh...