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Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving
Caitlin DeSilvey
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
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Cover Page
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Half Title Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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1. Postpreservation: Looking Past Loss
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2. Memory’s Ecologies: Curating Mutability in Montana
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3. When Story Meets the Storm: Unsafe Harbor
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4. Orderly Decay: Philosophies of Nonintervention
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5. A Positive Passivity: Entropic Gardens
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6. Boundary Work: On Expertise and Ambiguity
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7. Palliative Curation: The Death of a Lighthouse
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8. Beyond Saving: Care without Conservation
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Permissions
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Index
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Published: 2017
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- 9780816694389 (paper)