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Silverman, Helaine

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Helaine Silverman received her B.A. at Queens College of the City University of New York, M.A. at Columbia University, and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the position of full professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where she is also the director of the university’s Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP). Prior to becoming involved in cultural heritage research, Dr. Silverman conducted many years of archaeological fieldwork on the south coast of Peru.

Major Accomplishments

Dr. Silverman’s Nasca research in the 1980s and 1990s rewrote understanding of this ancient society, which previously had been known almost exclusively on the basis of its exquisite polychrome pottery and the countless tombs from which this material had been looted over the course of almost a century. She overturned the dogma that early Nasca had been organized as a state and that...

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References

  • Silverman, H. 1990. Beyond the Pampa. The geoglyphs in the valleys of Nazca. National Geographic Research 6: 435-356.

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  • - 1993. Cahuachi in the ancient Nasca world. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

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  • - 2002a. Touring ancient times: the present and presented past in contemporary Peru. American Anthropologist 104: 881-902.

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  • - 2002b. Ancient Nasca settlement and society. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

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  • - 2005. Embodied heritage, identity politics and tourism. Anthropology and Humanism 30: 141-155.

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  • - 2006. The historic district of Cusco as an open-air site museum, in H. Silverman (ed.) Archaeological site museums in Latin America: 159-183. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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Further Reading

  • Di Giovine, M.A. 2009. The heritage-scape: UNESCO, world heritage, and tourism. Lanham: Lexington Books.

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  • Leask, A. & A. Fyall. 2006.M anaging world heritage sites. Amsterdam: BH/Elsevier.

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  • Mathers, C., T. Darvill & B. J. Little. (ed.) 2005. Heritage of value, archaeology of renown. Reshaping archaeological assessment and significance. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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  • McKercher, B. & H. Du Cros. (ed.) 2002. Cultural tourism: the partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management. Binghamton (NY): The Haworth Press, Inc.

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  • Silverman, H. & W.H. Isbell. (ed.) 2008. Handbook of South American archaeology. New York: Springer.

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  • Silverman, H. & D.B. Small. (ed.). 2002. The space and place of death(Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 11). Arlington (VA): American Anthropological Association.

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  • Timothy, D.J. & S.W. Boyd. 2003. Heritage tourism. Harlow, Essex: Prentice-Hall.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Helaine Silverman

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  1. Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Claire Smith

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Silverman, H. (2014). Silverman, Helaine. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_390

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