In the West, the authorized heritage discourse stresses the material, or tangible, nature of heritage, along with monumentality, grand scale, time depth and aesthetics (Smith 2006: 29f). While it identifies the symbolic importance of heritage for representing social and cultural identity, it pays scant recognition to the dynamics of how identity is actively constructed or created in association with heritage. This is because the dominant discourse of heritage naturalizes the assumption that heritage is inextricably linked to identity to such an extent that how and why these links occur are hardly ever considered – the heritage/identity dyad just “is”. The authorized heritage discourse, informed by archaeological concerns with materiality and assumptions about the representational relationships between material culture and identity, obscures or marginalizes or misrecognizes those identities created using conceptualizations of heritage that sit outside of the authorized heritage discourse.
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