Hi Jayakrishna,

Its a very interesting field with lots of areas to focus on but it seems that local community involvement is rather a topic that may be of interest. Locals connected to their heritage sites vary in each country and each site. Observing in Egypt has shown me that many think of the sites as an income generator and nothing else. Perhaps this is pure economics or perhaps it has to do with education. I do not know. Community support may be connected to government support in the aspect of sustainability, especially dealing with maintenance. Also, training in Heritage Management seems to be lacking with individuals actually managing historic sites.

Just some ideas to think about....

Hello Jayakrishna Bandla. Some more information would be great. What kind of heritage do you work with? regards

All built sites contain a collective subconscious re-expression of five layers of archetypal structure. one of these layers is a spatial pattern, anchored to an axial grid between the focal points of twelve or more structures or features. I have demonstrated this effect in 100 built sites worldwide. There is often such as structure, named stoneprint, in the main campus, and in the visible region. The implication for conservation is that the extent of the 'semantic' site could be determined as an aid to assessment, archetypal identification, demarcation, study, and comparison to other sites. I invite your comments, and hope that the archetypal structuralist anthropology approach and theory would be tested and criticised. Here is a link to an example of one of the sites deserving more study, and on the same website are some extracts from my book Stoneprint (2016): https://stoneprintjournal.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/delphic-apollo-subconscious-stoneprint-tour/

Hi Jayakrishna, the good question there but please note that heritage comes in two forms that is tangible heritage and intangible heritage, so which one are you specifically looking for because these two are conserved in different ways.

warm regards...

Hello Henrik Pohl thank you very much for the response.

I am particularly interested in, built heritage conservation and its role in socio-economic uplift.

thank you Smahia Boudia , its a nice topic to start with, your suggestion is noted and appreciated

Hello John Shearman Ph.D. , thank you very much for your suggestion Dr., could you please elaborate on the part of community involvement, where they could be involved, and to what extent it helps?

best regards

Several ways that the community could be involved such as providing tours, connecting with tourists from all over the world, keeping the grounds clean, providing history lessons to the young, and working with government officials on various policies to name a few. Local residence have also been known to get involved with the archaeology and conservation under the direction of professionals. This not only helps them with learning and connecting with the actual structure and their history, but also provides basic new skills that could be used in the future. There is more appreciation when they get involved. They could also receive knowledge of heritage management techniques. Your research could reveal new aspects of community involvement. Heritage Management is such an important field and good management is so badly needed in so many places.

Geopolymers binders can be used for repairing and preserving artifacts, since they can reproduce stones.

Jayakrishna Bandla, I have an article that I just read that might have some impact on your subject. How can I email it to you?

Hi Jayakrishna Bandla

We could discuss this subject matter latter as I am currently a bit busy. Thank you for your enquiry. I will get back to you soon.

Are you still looking?

you can read the following thesis written in french:

jean Marie Datouang, patrimoine et patrimonialisation au Cameroun: les DIY -gid- biy des monts mandara pour une étude de cas, thèse de doctorat , universite de Laval, Québec, 2014.

you can get it online.

Book:

· Muñoz Viñas, Salvador (2004), "Contemporary Theory of Conservation". (It's an english traduction from the spanish original)

See: https://www.amazon.es/Contemporary-Theory-Conservation-Salvador-Munoz-Vinas/dp/0750662247