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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807169803321

Autore

Dicks Bella

Titolo

Culture on display : the production of contemporary visitability / / Bella Dicks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkshire, England, : Open University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-95128-1

0-335-22484-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Issues in cultural and media studies

Disciplina

306.4

306.4819

Soggetti

Culture and tourism

Heritage tourism

Material culture

Cultural property

Cultural policy

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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