Italian Cultural Heritage: Old Practice, New Challenges

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The history of safeguard, conservation and preservation of Cultural Heritage in Italy boasts a long tradition that goes back to the early 15th century. Since then, Italy has always been at the forefront in theoretically defining the concept of Cultural Heritage and in developing governmental policies that not only regulate archaeological investigation practice, but also delineate socio-political and economic interaction among the different stakeholders.

Nonetheless, a shifting in global and local socio-political dynamics and a stronger attention to build intercultural understanding through protection of heritage and support for cultural diversity has brought to the table new approaches and new challenges to the definition, perception, and consumption of Cultural Heritage.

This paper aims at exploring the many new factors in the development of laws and policies, economic circumstances and community awareness and engagement that are leading to a new era in the field of Cultural Heritage in Italy.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites

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