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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457433303321

Autore

Dicks Bella

Titolo

Culture on Display [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

ISBN

1-280-95128-1

0-335-22484-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

306.4819

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects

Cultural policy

Cultural property

Culture and tourism

Heritage tourism

Material culture

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Social & Cultural Anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Culture on Display invites the reader to visit culture. Reflecting on the contemporary proliferation of sites displaying culture in visitable form, it offers fresh ways of thinking about tourism, leisure and heritage. Bella Dicks locates diverse exhibitionary locations within wider social, economic and cultural transformations, including contemporary practices of tourism and travel, strategies of economic development, the staging of identities, globalization, interactivity and relations of consumerism. In particular, she critically examines how culture becomes transformed when it is put on dis