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Author Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

Title Destination culture : tourism, museums, and heritage / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents The agency of display: Objects of ethnography ; Exhibiting Jews -- A second life as heritage: Destination museum ; Ellis Island ; Plimoth Plantation -- Undoing the ethnographic: Confusing pleasures ; Secrets of encounter -- Circulating Value: Disputing Taste
Summary Destination Culture deals with agencies of display in museums, festivals, world's fair, historical recreations, and tourist attractions. Drawing on the history of the avant-garde and the implications of its practices, Destination Culture attempts to theorize the artifact and the logic of exhibition in the context of lively debates about the death of museums, ascendancy of tourism, production of heritage, limits of multiculturalism, social efficacy of the arts, and circulation of value in the life world
With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-314) and index
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Subject Ethnological museums and collections.
Heritage tourism.
Museum exhibits.
Tourism.
Culture
Culture
cultural tourism.
tourism.
culture note.
culture (concept)
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Popular Culture.
Culture
Ethnological museums and collections
Heritage tourism
Museum exhibits
Tourism
Ferntourismus
Volkskundemuseum
Ethnologie
Tourismusindustrie
Sammlung
Ethnologisches Museum
Tentoonstellingen.
Etnografie.
Cultura.
Exposições museológicas.
Turismo.
Museus etnográficos.
Acervo museológico.
Tourisme culturel.
Écomusées.
Muséologie.
Ethnologie -- Musées.
Tourisme.
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520919488
0520919483
0585292779
9780585292779