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Heritage is concerned with the ways in which very selective material artefacts, mythologies, memories and traditions become resources for the present. The contents, interpretations and representations of the resource are selected according to the demands of the present; an imagined past provides resources for a heritage that is to be passed onto an imagined future. It follows too that the meanings and functions of memory and tradition are defined in the present. Further, heritage is more concerned with meanings than material artefacts. It is the former that give value, either cultural or financial, to the latter and explain why they have been selected from the near infinity of the past. In turn, they may later be discarded as the demands of present societies change, or even, as is presently occurring in the former Eastern Europe, when pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents. Thus heritage is as much about forgetting as remembering the past.
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Gu-Hoon Kwon they may later be discarded as the demands of present societies change, or even, as is presently occurring in the former Eastern Europe, when pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents. There is no explicit subject of "is" here, but it is implicitly a situation in which pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents . "as" is used as "which", and as such it refers to the same implicit subject described above.
- Gu-Hoon Kwon they may later be discarded as the demands of present societies change, or even, as is presently occurring in the former Eastern Europe, when pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents.
- There is no explicit subject of "is" here, but it is implicitly a situation in which pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents .
- "as" is used as "which", and as such it refers to the same implicit subject described above.
- Thus, they may later be discarded ...
- even ...
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Gu-Hoon Kwonthey may later be discarded as the demands of present societies change, or even, as is presently occurring in the former Eastern Europe, when pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents.
There is no explicit subject of "is" here, but it is implicitly
a situation in which pasts have to be reinvented to reflect new presents.
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