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Culture and value : tourism, heritage, and property /

When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the essays gathere...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bendix, Regina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : creating, owning, and narrating within tourism economies
  • Tourism and cultural displays : inventing traditions for whom?
  • On the road to fiction : narrative reification in Austrian cultural tourism
  • Fairy-tale activists : narrative imaginaries along a German tourist route
  • Capitalizing on memories past, present, and future : observations on the intertwining of tourism and narration
  • Introduction : heritage semantics, heritage regimes
  • Heredity, hybridity, and heritage from one fin de siecle to the next
  • Heritage between economy and politics : an assessment from the perspective of cultural anthropology
  • Inheritances : possession, ownership, and responsibility
  • The dynamics of valorizing culture : actors and shifting contexts in the course of a century
  • Introduction : culture as resource, culture as property
  • Expressive resources : knowledge, agency, and European ethnology
  • Daily bread, global distinction? : the German Bakers' Craft and cultural value-enhancement regimes
  • TK, TCE, and Co. : the path from culture as a commons to a resource for international negotiation
  • Patronage and preservation : heritage paradigms and their impact on supporting "good culture."