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In Norway, cultural heritage management is still an integrated part of the universities. Five university museums are responsible for all development-led excavations. Thus, cultural heritage management is strongly inspired by the “humboldtian” idea that research, education, and management should constitute an integrated system of knowledge production. Such a system got its advantages but also its challenges concerning balancing the different tasks, secure sufficient academic growth, and internationalization. Today, the public agenda seem to disfavor cultural historical museums in general and university museums in particular. Their engagement in heritage management seem to be an outdated system. In this article we argue that even though the Norwegian system seems exotic, even archaic, it still got some important advantages. The holistic philosophy behind could be promoted as a viable solution for heritage management in general and a revitalizing of archaeological collections as source material for research and education.
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Thanks to the associate Professors Zannete Tsigaridas Glørstad and Mads Ravn, and Professor Rane Willerslev for valuable comments on the manuscript.
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Glørstad, H., Kallhovd, K. (2013). The Allure of Bureaucracy: Cultural Heritage Management and the Universities in Norway. In: Heritage in the Context of Globalization. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6077-0_3
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