Chapter 10 Final thoughts
Heritage as a dimension of collectivity and belonging
Abstract
This final chapter
takes up these questions, mining some of our ethnographies for support. One of
these is the basis for a short diversion to a Turkish coffeehouse in what used to
be the edge of West Berlin. This is a marginal story that turns out to be central,
allowing us to suggest that among the multiple Europes circulating and bickering in the air around us, there are still some others yet to be brought into sight. After
this, we close the book with some practical comments about what, in this time of
perceived crisis, should be done to re-orient ideas of the European past at the level of heritage practice.