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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage, Kirshenblatt-G
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- Condition
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- 1998-09-10
- ISBN
- 9780520209664
- EAN
- 9780520209664
- Subject Area
- Travel, Art, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Destination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Subject
- Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 30.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 348 Pages
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Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects--and people--are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collected and exhibited, and about how specific techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey powerful messages. Her engaging analysis shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of "heritage." To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage. Although heritage is marketed as something old, she argues that heritage is actually a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the "good taste/bad taste" debate in the ephemeral "museum of the life world," where everyone is a curator of sorts and the process of converting life into heritage begins.
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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520209664
ISBN-13
9780520209664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
873089
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
348 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Destination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
Publication Year
1998
Subject
Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Art, Business & Economics, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-052399
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306/.074
Lc Classification Number
Gn36.K57 1998
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction part 1 The Agency of Display Objects of Ethnography Exhibiting Jews part 2 A Second Life as Heritage Destination Museum Ellis Island Plimoth Plantation part 3 Undoing the Ethnographic Confusing Pleasures Secrets of Encounter part 4 Circulating Value Disputing Taste Notes Index
Copyright Date
1999
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