Culture and Value (eBook)

Tourism, Heritage, and Property

Regina F. Bendix (Autor)

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2018
290 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253035707 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This book is the first collection of essays by noted folklorist, Regina F. Bendix, that explore how cultures create, give, and maintain value for cultural elements and artifacts.

2. Bendix's work seeks to transcend specialized perspectives on cultural heritage and integrate this booming research area into general folklore and anthropology research.

3. Includes new content including an introduction to the book, introductions to each of the three sections in the book, and two articles that have been translated into English from the original German for the first time.

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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.

Autor

Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include In Search of Authenticity and Backstage Domains. She is author (with Kilian Bizer and Dorothy Noyes) of Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and editor (with Aditya Eggert and Arnika Peselmann) of Heritage Regimes and the State. Together with Ulrich Marzolph she edits the journal Narrative Culture.

Inhalt

Culture and Value: An Introduction

Section I

Introduction: Creating, Owning, and Narrating within Tourist Economies

1. Tourism and Cultural Display: Inventing Traditions for Whom?

2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism

3. Fairy Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme)

4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration

Section II

Introduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes

5. Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from One Fin-de-Siècle to the Next

6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology

7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility

8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a Century

Section III

Introduction: Culture as Resource—Culture as Property

9. Expressive Resources. Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology

10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers' Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes

11. TK, TCE, and Co: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation

12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture"

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2018
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Case Studies • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural property • Cultural value • Culture • culture to market • economic • ethnographic scholarship • Ethnology • Folklore • Heritage • Heritage Regimes • heritage studies • Ideology • intangible heritage • Market Value • Political • Preservation • property • property rights • protection • social motivations • Theoretical • theory • Tourism • Tourism Economies • tourism studies • Value
• ISBN-13: 9780253035707 / 9780253035707