In this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F. King shares his expertise in dealing with laws regulating the use of cultural resources. With wry insight, he explains the various federal, state, and local laws governing the protection of resources, how they have been interpreted, how they operate in practice, and even how they are sometimes in contradiction with each other. He provides helpful advice on how to ensure regulatory compliance in dealing with archaeological sites, historic buildings, urban districts, sacred sites and objects, shipwrecks, and archives. King also offers careful guidance through the confusing array of federal, state, and tribal offices concerned with CRM. Featuring updated analysis and treatments of key topics, this new edition is a must-have for archaeologists and students, historic preservationists, tribal governments, and others working with cultural resources.
Thomas F. King has worked in historic preservation since the mid-1960s as an academic, a contractor, and a government official.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Preface to the Fourth Edition List of Figures and Table Chapter 1 Cultural Resource Management: Why Is It? What Is It? Who Does It? Chapter 2 Cultural Resources in the Broadest Sense: Practice Under the National Environmental Policy Act Chapter 3 Historic Properties as Cultural Resources: The National Register of Historic Places Chapter 4 Managing Impacts on Historic Properties: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act Chapter 5 More About Historic Places Chapter 6 Cultural Resources in, of, and from the Land Chapter 7 “Intangible” and Portable Cultural Resources Chapter 8 Comprehensive CRM? Chapter 9 Working with CRM Appendix 1 Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Glossary Appendix 2 Frequently Used Terms Appendix 3 Laws, Executive Orders, and Regulations Appendix 4 Model Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement Appendix 5 Model NAGPRA Plan of Action Bibliography Index About the Author
Each of King’s books is a must read, and Cultural Resource Laws and Practice most of all. In it, King transforms the complexities of heritage management into a veritable page-turner. Like the first edition, this fourth is a definitive how-to guide. But it’s also a critique, based on decades of experience. Readers will value Cultural Resource Laws and Practice as much for King’s insights on changing the system as for his instructions on working it.
Steve Black
Tom King has played a unique role in CRM as one of the architects of the original Section 106 regulations and the discipline’s most articulate explicator and critic. This purportedly final edition has updated regulatory detail, recent examples, and sharpened critique. This book is essential reading for those interested in historic preservation including CRM practitioners and civil servants. One hopes that the latter might actually heed King’s well-reasoned rejoinders for the critical need to reform the regulation and management of our nation’s cultural resources.
