TY - JOUR
KW - Channel Islands
KW - German Bunkers
KW - Ghosts
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Tangible Intangibility
AU - G. Carr
AB - This paper explores the constraints upon archaeologists who working in the field of heritage studies who encounter tales of haunting, or have their own experiences with ghosts, during fieldwork. The discipline lacks the terminology to describe, analyse or understand such experiences, leading to either omissions, embarrassed anecdotes at the end of ‘serious’ discussions of fieldwork, or talking in metaphors. Using the case study of the Channel Islands, this paper explores ways in which archaeologists can talk and write about ghosts through recent understandings of the concept of ‘heritage’, through a rejection of UNESCO’s definitions of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the adoption of the concept of ‘tangible intangibility’.
BT - Terrain
DO - 10.4000/TERRAIN.16661
LA - English
M1 - 69
N1 - Publisher: Terrain
N2 - This paper explores the constraints upon archaeologists who working in the field of heritage studies who encounter tales of haunting, or have their own experiences with ghosts, during fieldwork. The discipline lacks the terminology to describe, analyse or understand such experiences, leading to either omissions, embarrassed anecdotes at the end of ‘serious’ discussions of fieldwork, or talking in metaphors. Using the case study of the Channel Islands, this paper explores ways in which archaeologists can talk and write about ghosts through recent understandings of the concept of ‘heritage’, through a rejection of UNESCO’s definitions of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the adoption of the concept of ‘tangible intangibility’.
PY - 2018
T2 - Terrain
TI - Concrete’s memory: Positioning ghosts of war in the Channel Islands
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85094129980&doi=10.4000%2fTERRAIN.16661&partnerID=40&md5=22b63be026ee1632c93be193ae733305
SN - 07605668 (ISSN)
ER -