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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
by Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
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- Condition
- VG (Bookplate from previous art-library owner; otherwise close to Like New.)
- ISBN 10
- 0520209664
- ISBN 13
- 9780520209664
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About This Item
Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1998. Softcover. VG (Bookplate from previous art-library owner; otherwise close to Like New.). Maroon, gold & black & illustrated wraps, 326 pp., BW illustrations. "Shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of 'heritage.' To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage, which she sees not as a simple representation of the past but rather as a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the 'good taste / bad taste' debate in the ephemeral 'museum of the life world,' where everyone is a curator of sorts and the process of converting life into heritage begins." (back cover).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139963
- Title
- Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
- Author
- Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520209664
- ISBN 13
- 9780520209664
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, Calif
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Museum Management ; Museums ; Tourism ; ;
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