Destination Culture Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

Name: Destination Culture Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
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ISBN: 9780520209664

ISBN-10: 0520209664

ISBN-13: 9780520209664

Edition: 1999

Authors: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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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,…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/5/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Index