Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects--and people--are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520209664

ISBN13:9780520209664

Release Date:September 1998

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:348 Pages

Weight:1.92 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.9" x 9.1"

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