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Destination culture
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ISBN: 0520204670 0520209664 9780520209664 0520919483 0585292779 9780520919488 9780520204676 9780585292779 0471314765 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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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Culture. --- Ethnological museums and collections. --- Heritage tourism. --- Museum exhibits. --- Tourism. --- #VCV monografie 2000 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- 39 --- 069 --- 069 Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- toerisme --- cultuursociologie --- tourism --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- museology --- Sociology of culture --- museumkunde --- Tourism --- culturele antropologie --- social anthropology --- Museology --- cultuur --- museum --- cultureel erfgoed --- Historic preservation --- Museum exhibits --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Patrimoine historique --- Objets exposés --- Tourisme --- Culture --- Musées et collections --- Ethnological museums and collections --- Heritage tourism --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Display techniques --- Displays, Museum --- Museum displays --- Museums --- Exhibitions --- Museum techniques --- Cultural tourism --- Ethnological collections --- Ethnology --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Cultural sociology --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects


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Gestion et réaffectation du patrimoine rural : actes du colloque du 22 novembre 1996
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ISBN: 2874010499 9782874010491 Year: 1998 Volume: 6 Publisher: Namur : DGATLP et Fondation R. Baudouin,

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Ce volume comprend la synthèse des communications présentées lors du colloque, et essaye de brosser un panorama aussi exhaustif que possible des problèmes que posent la gestion et la réaffectation du patrimoine rural, articulé autour de 4 thèmes : patrimoine paysager, patrimoine bâti, patrimoine et tourisme, et financement de la protection du patrimoine rural.


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Window on Taiwan
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ISBN: 905325109X Year: 1998 Publisher: Anvers Pandora

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Auteur, antropoloog en fotograaf Mark De Fraeye laat ons op een mooie manier kennis maken met Taiwan in al zijn facetten: kaarten, natuur en landschap, geschiedenis, traditionele religie, cultuur en economie worden o.a. via prachtige foto's voorgesteld aan de lezer(es).

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