Despite an undoubted awareness of the intangible aspects of culture in heritage studies, scholars continue to base their understanding of intangible heritage according to rationalist theories of perception, which accept only a single mode of perception—that which is bound to the empirical, sensorial and terrestrial world.
First visited by westerners in the mid-nineteenth century, Saharan rock art has since received a great deal of attention. The richness and diversity of this region is recognised by the inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list of three properties: Tassili-n-Ajjer in Algeria, Tadrart Acacus in Libya, and Ennedi in Chad.
In Paesaggi industriali e Patrimonio Unesco (Industrial Landscapes and Heritage of UNESCO) Massimo Preite delineates a general frame concerning the nature of industrial landscapes in Italy and in Europe. He also illustrates the presence and the role of this kind of heritage in UNESCO’s categories. The Italian title involves the definition of the industrial landscape. Over the last twenty years the author, a member of the board of TICCIH, AIPAI and ERIH, has paid attention to the regeneration phenomena in Italy and across Europe.
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