Culture and Value
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Culture and Value

Tourism, Heritage, and Property

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Culture and Value

Tourism, Heritage, and Property

About this book

When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the essays gathered in Culture and Value focus on the motivations and value regimes people in particular times and contexts have generated to enhance the visibility and prestige of cultural practices, narratives, and artifacts.


This collection of essays by noted folklorist Regina F. Bendix, offers a personal record of the unfolding scholarly debate regarding value in the studies of tourism, heritage, and cultural property. Written over the course of several decades, Bendix's case studies and theoretical contributions chronicle the growing and transforming ways in which ethnographic scholarship has observed social actors generating value when carrying culture to market, enhancing value in inventing protective and restorative regimes for culture, and securing the potential for both in devising property rights. Bendix's work makes a case for a reflexive awareness of the changing scholarly paradigms that inform scholars' research contributions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Culture and Value: An Introduction
  7. Section I
  8. 1. Tourism and Cultural Displays: Inventing Traditions for Whom?
  9. 2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism
  10. 3. Fairy-Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme)
  11. 4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present, and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration
  12. Section II
  13. 5. Heredity, Hybridity, and Heritage from One Fin de Siècle to the Next
  14. 6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology
  15. 7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility
  16. 8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a Century
  17. Section III
  18. 9. Expressive Resources: Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology
  19. 10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers’ Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes
  20. 11. TK, TCE, and Co.: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation
  21. 12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting “Good Culture”
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover