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As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke's study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps us understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists' view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island

Minoans. --- Tourism --- Crete (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Civilization, Minoan --- Economic aspects --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Minoans --- Antiquities --- Tourism - Greece - Crete --- Crete (Greece) - Antiquities