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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- II INSIGHTS AND PROSPECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL-HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE STUDIES
- III LINKING KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
- IV IMAGINATION - FACTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS
- V SHARING KNOWLEDGE - STORIES, MAPS AND DESIGN
- VI SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS
- VII MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
- VIII AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
- IX SUMMARY
- X APPENDIX
- Subject Index
- Index of Places and Regions
4 - Images, Attitudes and Measures in the field of Cultural Heritage in Norway
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- II INSIGHTS AND PROSPECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL-HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE STUDIES
- III LINKING KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
- IV IMAGINATION - FACTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS
- V SHARING KNOWLEDGE - STORIES, MAPS AND DESIGN
- VI SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS
- VII MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
- VIII AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
- IX SUMMARY
- X APPENDIX
- Subject Index
- Index of Places and Regions
Summary
ABSTRACT
Policies and measures towards the upkeep of cultural heritage are influenced by historical processes and priorities as well as pressing contemporary issues. This article explores measures and attitudes towards the cultural heritage of agriculture in Norway. Relying on recent studies and concrete examples, it shows how ‘ideal landscapes’ as depicted by painters in the national Romantic era are part of the frame of reference for public managers and probably also influence the way in which people in general view agrarian landscapes. However, the pattern of ‘favoured landscapes’ in the context of agri-environmental measures and in local practical landscape management projects is also strongly influenced by the development of farming as such, the development of the agrarian landscape and people's aesthetic or practical preferences on a general level. Heritage cannot be defined and taken for granted once and for all. Heritage is dynamic. At the same time, cultural heritage management as a public responsibility needs to prioritize different forms of heritage. What is of great importance is to critically reflect around decisions taken and acknowledge the variety of views and definitions.
KEY WORDS
Cultural heritage; measures, landscape management; landscape values; farming
INTRODUCTION
Cultural heritage as a concept, a field of research, public management responsibility and as a part of human practice and lifeworld is multi-faceted. Views, definitions, assessments and measures are numerous. Several actors or interests influence how cultural heritage is defined and valued and how it is physically manifested in our surroundings. This paper will address examples of ‘appointed heritage’ in a past and present context based on recent research and heritage policy trends within a Norwegian setting.
THE EMBLEMATIC STATUS OF AGRICULTURE's CULTURAL HERITAGE
National cultural heritage in a Norwegian context is strongly linked to rurality and to agricultural practices, objects and landscapes. This can be explained by several interrelated factors. Firstly, due to the natural conditions at the northern fringe of Europe, the economy has traditionally relied on primary businesses, especially pastoral systems adapted to the abundance of outlying lands in forests and mountains and the scarcity of lowland areas suitable for arable production. Agro-pastoral systems have developed in many forms and also in combination with fisheries and forestry. Secondly, Norway was late to industrialize and urbanize and an agrarian based and partly subsistence economy had a stronghold for a long time.
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- The Cultural Landscape and Heritage ParadoxProtection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape and its European Dimension, pp. 263 - 272Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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