Heritage has emerged as a key area of contemporary anthropological concern, with debates previously framed in terms of culture and tradition now being discussed as heritage. The rise of anthropological interest in heritage is a response to the configuration of culture and cultural debate in terms of heritage and to an anthropological turn within heritage practice itself. While anthropological studies have shown heritage being used instrumentally for ideological or commercial reasons, a major contribution of anthropological study has been to challenge reductive interpretations and to highlight local and indigenous complexities and understandings. Anthropology has also shown how heritage is used reflexively, for culture making as well as for provoking reflection upon relationships between past, present, and future. An expanded anthropology of heritage also needs to address ways of bringing the past into the present that are not explicitly defined as heritage.