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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967367703321

Autore

Duke P. G.

Titolo

The tourists gaze, the Cretans glance : archaeology and tourism on a Greek island / / Philip Duke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, 2007

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1315416913

1315416921

131541693X

1598747797

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages)

Collana

Heritage, tourism, and community

Disciplina

939/.18

Soggetti

Minoans

Tourism - Greece - Crete

Crete (Greece) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Introduction; Touring the Past; The Minoan Past; Tourists and the Constructed Past; Modern Crete, Ancient Minoans, and the Tourist Experience; Constructing a Prehistory; The Nexus of the Past; References Cited; Index; About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke's study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps us understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists' view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island.