Cultural Heritage Management

Este artículo analiza el estado actual en el que se encuentran los consorcios en las ciudades patrimonio de la humanidad, teniendo en cuenta su largo recorrido y las experiencias acumuladas. De igual forma, se examinan algunas repercusiones en su gestión derivadas tanto del cambio de modelo turístico como de las diferentes crisis económicas sufridas en la última década. Para ello, se toma como referencia el caso de Toledo, cuyo consorcio no sólo acumula experiencia sino que, como el resto, debe afrontar nuevos retos futuros. Entre ellos, el problema de la progresiva desaparición de los conventos en nuestras ciudades.

Resumen
En Europa no solo hay un aumento de la demanda de turismo cultural, sino también un aumento de la producción de bienes culturales, patrimoniales y artísticos. Esta producción se utiliza con fines de rentabilidad económica, pero también con fines políticos, sociales y culturales. Hay muchas formas de mirar el turismo, en este ensayo vamos a observar el turismo, como una actividad humana que surge del ámbito de la cultura, desde un punto de vista antropológico.

Summary
In Europe there is not only an increase in the demand for cultural tourism, but also an increase in the production of cultural, heritage and artistic goods. This production is used for the purposes of economic profitability, but also for political, social and cultural purposes. There are many ways of looking at tourism, in this essay we are going to observe tourism, as a human activity that arises from the field of culture, from an anthropological point of view.

This article aims to conceptualize some of the varied ways Muslims have engaged with antiquity over time. Beginning with the example of Palmyra, it argues that the restora- tion of the Temple of Bel by the French archaeological team led by Henri Seyrig in the early twentieth century and the destruction of that same temple by ISIS in 2015 are both ideological acts oriented toward reviving an imagined and idealized past. While ISIS erased the remains of the ancient site recreated by the French, the French had previously erased 1,800 years of Christian and Muslim heritage at Palmyra. Both actions are the outcome of the logic inherent in globalized, cosmopolitan heritage ideals. As a means of moving beyond the problematic discourse of the globalized heritage model in which certain heritage values are ‘authorized’ and others are not, the article then proposes an initial conceptualization of imaginings of heritage in Islamic societies over time, suggesting a range of diverse ways Muslims have valued and continue to value ancient localities, and introduces the articles contained in this special issue.