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Destination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520209664
ISBN-139780520209664
eBay Product ID (ePID)873089
Product Key Features
Number of Pages348 Pages
Publication NameDestination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
SubjectIndustries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
AuthorBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Subject AreaArt, Travel, Social Science, Business & Economics
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight30.5 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-052399
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306/.074
Table Of ContentList 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
SynopsisDestination 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.
LC Classification NumberGN36.K57 1998
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