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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the staff of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig who hosted and shared in the organisation of this conference, in particular John Norman MacLeod, Lachie Dick and Nicola Thomson. We would also like to thank Bob Powell and the staff at the Highland Folk Museum for assisting in the organisation of the conference. Our thanks also go to our various sponsors, in particular Highland Council, UHI Millennium Institute and UBC. Finally, we would like to thank all the delegates who contributed papers, and who shared in the discussions, for their contributions and insights.
Notes
[1] Smith, The Uses of Heritage, 44.
[2] Ibid., 44.
[3] David Lowenthal in his foundational work The Past is A Foreign Country was among the earliest of authors to make this point. Since then, this has been a common theme in heritage and museum literature with Ashworth et al., Pluralising Pasts one of the more recent offerings.
[4] Ashworth et al., Pluralising Pasts.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Smith, The Uses of Heritage.
[7] Crooke, Museums and their Communities, 31.
[8] Council of Europe; Scottish Landscape Forum, 7.
[9] A companion volume, Dualchas agus an Àrainneachd, edited by Richard Cox and Hugh Cheape, for the Gaelic papers presented at the conference, will be published in 2009.