Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place

Yarrow, T.

doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12596

Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place

Yarrow, T.

Authors

Professor Thomas Yarrow t.g.yarrow@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

H Brown
Editor

A Reed
Editor

Professor Thomas Yarrow t.g.yarrow@durham.ac.uk
Editor

Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic research with heritage professionals in Scotland, the essay explores meetings as organizational devices for differentiating and relating various forms of epistemic, social, and material context. The account describes how the bureaucratic ideal of institutional consistency is achieved through staged encounters between the perspectives of the various people who meet, and the buildings that are the objects of their meeting. These ethnographic examples are used to develop two linked points. Firstly, it is suggested that the lens of ‘meeting’ complicates the relatively monolithic characterizations of heritage expertise evident in widely influential deconstructive critiques of heritage practice. Secondly, it is argued that heritage practitioners’ own accounts of these negotiations highlight material and spatial dimensions of bureaucratic conduct that have that have received relatively little ethnographic attention in prevalent textually orientated accounts.

Citation

Yarrow, T. (2017). Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 20, 2016
Online Publication Date	Mar 20, 2017
Publication Date	Apr 1, 2017
Deposit Date	Mar 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Mar 20, 2019
Journal	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Print ISSN	1359-0987
Electronic ISSN	1467-9655
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	23
Issue	S1
Pages	95-109
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Yarrow, T. (2017). Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective and place. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(S1): 95-109, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.