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Tourism Art and Souvenirs : the Material Culture of Tourism.
This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropology, and demonstrates...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in tourism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Method of assessment; 2 The European collection of 'Other' cultures: a historical structure from which to assess tourist art and souvenirs; Introduction; Pre-modern collecting; Colonial collecting; Early modern collecting; Tourism and anthropology; Explorer art and tourist art in Australia; 3 Souvenirs and the anthropological gaze: the study and reception of souvenirs over the last half century; Introduction; The sixties; The seventies; The eighties; The nineties.
- The arc of the boomerang: a case studySummary; 4 The souvenir and the fetish; Introduction; Substitution; Belief; Narrative; The magic of material objects, art and souvenirs; Surplus value: the economy of the fetish and souvenir; Time; Seriality; The transmission of the fetish from producer to consumer; 5 Contexts of display: tourist art in recent museogallery exhibitions; Introduction; Johnny Possum Tjapaltjarri: artist and souvenir maker; Behind the mask: the creativity of the First Nations of the Northern Pacific Rim, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 2001.
- Institutional terms of displayFour Aboriginal shields; The strength of the Koori line: souvenir nula-nulas (killing sticks or battle clubs) and other tools of life from Southeast Australia; All souvenirs are miniatures; 6 The language of souvenirs: three discrete groups
- the Sampled, Crafted and Representative; Introduction; Souvenir attributes; The expressive patterns of souvenirs; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.