Indonesia's maritime historiography so far has focused more on socio-economic interactions, such as: shipping-trade history, ethnic identity, downstream-upstream connections, and the politics of harbor workers. Meanwhile, sea, strait, river function to connect people, goods, ideas have made their own history which unfortunately be neglected in Indonesian historiography. By using historical meth...

This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community). To demonstrate the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence more broadly defi...

“OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END,” writes the biblical author of Ecclesiastes—and so it seems that of the making of many international heritage conventions, principles, and guidelines there also seems to be no end in sight. Beginning with the 1931 Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, through the 1964 Venice Charter, and continuing with the recent adoption of the 2003 I...

The subject of research is the trends rethinking Yugoslav heritage in politics memory modern Serbia. Based on study legislative acts, public speeches politicians and sociological data, authors identify main directions interpretation heritage, which include: understanding Serbian participation World War II as a civil war between various social political groups, striving to reconcile positions re...

Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given the attention it deserves from linguists and language instructors. Despite the appearance of great variation among heritage speakers, they fall a...

A UNESCO project, Support for the Preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia, afforded the opportunity to research evidence for Silk Roads exchange in South Asia. The first part of the paper explores the challenges of archaeology in the Kingdom of Bhutan, located on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas. GIS-based approaches to model earlier sett...

Physical and intellectual access to heritage is shaped by conservation through a longterm, cyclic and symbiotic relationship of representation and intervention (or lack of it). This informs future use and representation. Value (which may be assigned for different reasons) makes heritage. All heritage is valued for varied reasons. Some argue that heritage has inherent value; this is not covered ...

The past exists today in the form of objects, memories and landscapes. Of course this existence is illusory; objects, memories or landscapes have not remained the same throughout time. The past can still only exist in people’s heads and nowhere else. At the same time, people constantly require objects that recall the presence of the past. It is difficult to foresee the future, but it can be cre...