Because the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are converts to Tibetan Buddhism, individuals Falcone terms "non-heritage" practitioners, she focuses on the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists hailing from Portland to Pretoria.
For most cultural heritage management practitioners, the awe and lure of technology and the ease with which it can bring archaeology to life can distract from the end game of managing the site on the ground.
It focuses on assisting primarily art conservators, but also heritage researchers and practitioners with problem clarification on cultural heritage materials.
It was focused especially on practitioners of heritage science, i.e. technical staff with high levels of expertise in laboratories and university research facilities, who were associated with national museums.
Collaboration between researchers and practitioners is integral to heritage science, which encompasses all technological and scientific work that can benefit the heritage sector, through improved management, enhanced understanding of cultural heritage or increased public engagement [6].
The whirling dervishes made famous by Sufi practitioners also owe their heritage to the landlocked region -- the famous 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, composer of so many of the verses dervishes spin to even today, was born in Balkh, now a part of modern-day Afghanistan.
The conference concluded with participants recognizing that the complementary and inseparable co-existence of both nature and culture within heritage landscapes should foster greater collaboration between practitioners from all fields.
Although the benefits of collaborative heritage science research have been clearly articulated, bringing researchers and practitioners together to collaborate on research projects is not without challenges.
Few cultures are as proud or as protective of their national heritage as the Japanese, sometimes going so far as to elevate certain expert practitioners of a craft or art form to the status of a national treasure.
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