CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Maryam Shah |
|---|---|
| Title | Expanding Heritage Consciousness The Endangered Rock Carvings and Inscriptions in the Upper Indus Valley, Pakistan |
| Summary | There are thousands of ancient rock carvings and inscriptions scattered along rock surfaces in the Upper Indus Valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. In relation to these carvings and inscriptions, this thesis aims to discuss and question current discourses of heritage preservation and their application in remote geographical locations where the social, environmental, and political issues impact the general, global understandings and heritage practices. Attention will be drawn to community engagement in heritage management and processes, by giving agency to communities to decide what is heritage for them and what they want to preserve based on their worldview and after exposure to scholarly perspectives. Besides the discussion of Pakistani national heritage policies and legislation, there is also an analysis of the parallel cultural, natural, social and political agents that contribute to top-down heritage processes in the region. |
| Supervisor | Alice Choyke |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/shah_maryam.pdf |
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