Culture on Display [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Dicks Bella
• Pubblicazione: Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4; 306.4819
• Soggetto topico: Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Cultural policy; Cultural property; Culture and tourism; Heritage tourism; Material culture; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Social & Cultural Anthropology
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture on display
• ISBN: 1-280-95128-1; 0-335-22484-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784678903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II