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Public, the grand inquisitor. Also a friend. Case study: Croatia

Notwithstanding the theoretical advances in public archaeology, the behaviour of many, if not most practitioners of the discipline all too rarely offers exceptions to the line of thinking maintaining that verdicts over past, present and future of archaeological heritage belong only to the initiated, read professional archaeologists, leaving the doors closed to other legitimate stakeholders. When exploration, study, preservation, presentation and utilisation of monuments and sites of archaeological significance are concerned, such a self-sufficient attitude of the professional class, neglectful of the many different and frequently conflicting interests converging on that heritage, too often leads to exclusion and estrangement of potential partners in the comprehensive system of cultural resource management, divesting it of conceivable synergistic opportunities. This paper focusses on endeavours that, without moving an inch toward compromising the ethics of stewardship of archaeological heritage, take a step further by making use of that heritage as both the core and the binding material in a much broader enterprise serving and integrating needs, wishes, resources, knowledge and interests of a number of stakeholders, with special emphasis on local communities.

Public archaeology, cultural heritage, education, tourism, Croatia

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