Ancient Egypt had temples to gods, but because the primary concern of its religion was the afterlife of souls, its pyramidal tombs became its primary shrines and most familiar architectural heritage.
Truly this was another country, though one whose music remains all too familiar, thanks to "heritage rock", a concept Hepworth also traces to 1971; the year saw a burst of nostalgia exemplified by Don McLean's American Pie and George Lucas's American Graffiti.
Many here are not especially familiar with African-American heritage.
The aesthetic will be familiar: the focus on heritage brands and enamel, rough-woven Welsh blankets and French soap flakes, has in recent years been disseminated by Kaufman Mercantile, Schoolhouse Electric, Brook Farm General Store, and a host of like-minded venders who wish to promote the artisanal and built-to-last.
Re "Raquel Welch Is Reinvented as a Latina; a Familiar Actress Now Boasts Her Heritage" (Arts pages, June 11): Raquel Welch said her Bolivian father "never spoke any Spanish in the home, so as not to have us have an accent".
The interpretation of these findings was that bilinguals are typically acquiring English in a school context, resulting in the acquisition of academic English in unfamiliar contexts, in contrast with the use of a heritage language in familiar, home contexts.
Bloomsbury's scientific heritage is perhaps less familiar.
"It's a gesture that I hope has meaning for them," he said, adding that his own heritage has made him familiar with war.
In approaching ethics "exclusively from the side of natural history" (Descent 1981, 71), he offered some innovations that do not easily map on to standard ethical positions formulated around the familiar categories of Utilitarianism and the Kantian heritage of Deontology.
Mann, who was born in California, knew that the wide-open spaces of the West were anything but empty, and portrayed its multicultural heritage long before the concept became familiar.
