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"Or as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples--from the relic-dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Potts, Rolf (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.
Colección:Object lessons.
Temas:
Tourism > Social aspects.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > Social aspects.
Souvenirs (Objets)
Souvenirs (Objets) > Aspect social.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Material culture.
Cultural studies.
Literary theory.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural.
Philosophy > Aesthetics.
Literary Criticism > Semiotics & Theory.
SPORTS & RECREATION > General.
Heritage tourism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an embarrassment of Eiffel Towers
  • Souvenirs in the age of pilgrimage
  • Souvenirs in the age of Enlightenment
  • Interlude: museums of the personal
  • Souvenirs in the age of mechanical reproduction
  • Souvenirs and human suffering
  • Souvenirs and (the complicated notion of) authenticity
  • Souvenirs, memory, and the shortness of life.

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