Culture and Value : Tourism, Heritage, and Property / Regina F. Bendix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bendix, Regina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Social aspects.

Cultural property.

Heritage tourism--Social aspects.

Heritage tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

1. This book is the first collection of essays by noted folklorist, Regina F. Bendix, that explore how cultures create, give, and maintain value for cultural elements and artifacts. 2. Bendix's work seeks to transcend specialized perspectives on cultural heritage and integrate this booming research area into general folklore and anthropology research. 3. Includes new content including an introduction to the book, introductions to each of the three sections in the book, and two articles that have been translated into English from the original German for the first time.

Contents:

Introduction : creating, owning, and narrating within tourism economies

Tourism and cultural displays : inventing traditions for whom?

On the road to fiction : narrative reification in Austrian cultural tourism

Fairy-tale activists : narrative imaginaries along a German tourist route

Capitalizing on memories past, present, and future : observations on the intertwining of tourism and narration

Introduction : heritage semantics, heritage regimes

Heredity, hybridity, and heritage from one fin de siecle to the next

Heritage between economy and politics : an assessment from the perspective of cultural anthropology

Inheritances : possession, ownership, and responsibility

The dynamics of valorizing culture : actors and shifting contexts in the course of a century

Introduction : culture as resource, culture as property

Expressive resources : knowledge, agency, and European ethnology

Daily bread, global distinction? : the German Bakers' Craft and cultural value-enhancement regimes

TK, TCE, and Co. : the path from culture as a commons to a resource for international negotiation

Patronage and preservation : heritage paradigms and their impact on supporting "good culture".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253035691

0253035694

9780253035684

0253035686

OCLC:

1035812843