Description
Book Synopsisâœa welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly writingâ a comprehensive critical survey of the literature on cultural heritage and tourism and associated issues in the fields of cultural and media studies over the previous decade. These concepts and issues are clearly presented and exemplified in the case studies of numerous sites of cultural displayââ Southern Review
- Why is culture so widely on display?
- What are the major characteristics of contemporary cultural display?
- What is the relationship between cultural display and key features of contemporary society: the rise of consumerism; tourism; âidentity-speakâ; globalization?
- What can cultural display tell us about current relations of self and other, here and there, now and then?
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 t
Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword
Introduction
culture as somewhere to go
A culture on display
Views through the hotel window
The city on display
Theming culture/theming nature
Visitable history
Exhibiting the other
Virtual destinations
References
Index.
