This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices in heritage management, using perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture.


Heritage Management is the practice of identifying, conserving, and maintaining cultural heritage sites and assetsso heritage is preserved and available for present and future generations to learn from.

The second edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses the changes in laws and new practices in ethics, diversity and social justice in heritage management. It includes perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture. This book will present a comprehensive overview of the American heritage management system, but it also includes insights into international heritage management. Scott Anfinson analyzes how these perspectives affected the development of the American system, and how they could now help improve the current system.

This book will emphasize a practical approach, the approach necessarily used by experienced government and private business heritage managers. Anfinson will address frustrations about lack of progressiveness in the heritage management system by highlighting how some ideas have been mainstreamed, while other are counter to what laws require and what standard practice expects. This updated edition will fulfill the needs of practitioners, teachers, students of heritage management.