Cultural heritage

About: Cultural heritage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 28201 publications have been published within this topic receiving 273875 citations. The topic is also known as: cultural assets & cultural goods.

Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry

Abstract: Native American professionals in the heritage industry often describe their work as “sharing culture” when they are involved in processes of transforming features of their cultures into alienable products for consumption. Participation in the heritage industry can be a powerful catalyst for local cultural reproduction, but it also poses a danger to those aspects of culture that Natives consciously protect from commodification. Drawing from a case study of a Native American–owned cultural-tourism business in Alaska, I explore the ways that tourism workers respond to this threat through the construction of what I call a “commodified persona.”[cultural commodification, representation, Northwest Coast, tourism]

Beyond ‘Natural’ and ‘Cultural’ Heritage: Towards an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of Anthropocene

Abstract: The critique of the separation of natural and cultural heritage is now well established. Rather than repeat arguments against what many would now acknowledge as an artificial separation, this paper considers the implications of working within the expanded field that is created for heritage when the dissolution of the boundaries between natural and cultural heritage is taken as given. I argue that embracing this dissolution allows us to reorient and reconceptualize heritage. Heritage is understood here as a series of diplomatic properties that emerge in the dialogue of heterogeneous human and non-human actors who are engaged in practices of caring for and attending to the past in the present. As such, heritage functions towards assembling futures, and thus might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political, and ecological issues of our time. Indeed, we need not look far to comprehend alternative forms of heritage-making that already model such connectivity ontologies. Fundamental to understanding the value of these alternative heritage ontologies is the recognition of ontological plurality: that different forms of heritage practices enact different realities and hence work to assemble different futures. Following on from this point, I sketch out an ontological politics of and for heritage—a sense of how heritage could be oriented towards composing “common worlds” or “common futures”, whilst maintaining a sensitivity to the ways in which each domain of heritage relates to a particular mode of existence. At stake here is the acknowledgement that each such mode of existence produces its own particular worlds and its own specific futures. I do this within the context of a consideration of the implications of the recognition of a certain set of entanglements of culture with nature, the folding together of what we used to term the human and the non-human, which characterizes our contemporary moment. To illustrate these points, I introduce the framework for a new collaborative research program, “Assembling alternative futures for heritage,” which considers the implications of working across an expanded field of heritage practices and attempts to reconfigure the relationship between heritage and other modalities of caring for the future.

International tourism : identity and change

Abstract: Introduction - Marie-Francoise Lanfant International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity - Marie-Francoise Lanfant Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital - Michel Picard Cultural Tourism in Bali Textiles, Memory and the Souvenir Industry in the Andes - Anath Ariel de Vidas Frontier Minorities, Tourism and the State in Indian Himalaya and Northern Thailand - Jean Michaud International Tourism and the Appropriation of History in the Balkans - John B Allcock Industrial Heritage in the Tourism Process in France - Claude-Marie Bazin Tourism and Tradition - Wendy Williams and Elly Maria Papamichael Local Control versus Outside Interests in Greece The Jewish Pilgrim and the Purchase of a Souvenir in Israel - Shelley Shenhav-Keller International Tourism and Utopia - Danielle Rozenberg The Balearic Islands Life as a Tourist Object in Australia - Meaghan Morris Sex Tourism and Traditional Australian Male Identity - Suzy Kruhse-MountBurton The Anthropologist as Tourist - Malcolm Crick An Identity in Question The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia - Edward M Bruner