Culture On Display
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2004
247 pages
978-0-335-22484-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 tourism, leisure and heritage. Bella Dicks locates diverse exhibitionary locations within wider social, economic and cultural transformations, including contemporary practices of tourism and travel, strategies of economic development, the staging of identities, globalization, interactivity and relations of consumerism. In particular, she critically examines how culture becomes transformed when it is put on display within these contexts.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Bringing 'there' here
- A short history of cultural display
- Characteristics of cultural display
- The duality of cultural display
- Structure of the book
- Notes
- Chapter 01 A CULTURE OF DISPLAY
- Display
- Culture
- The global and the particular
- The cultural economy of visitability
- Class and cosmopolitanism
- Further reading
- Chapter 02 VIEWS FROM THE HOTEL WINDOW
- Culture and tourism
- Tourists, visitors, travellers
- Tourism, inequalities and difference
- Hosts, guests and cultural imperialism
- Being ourselves for you
- Beyond authenticity
- Notes
- Further reading
- Chapter 03 CITIES ON DISPLAY
- Cities are fun
- cities are different
- The global, the local and the marketing of place
- The problems of urban culturalization
- A tale of two make-overs
- Notes
- Further reading
- Chapter 04 THEMING CULTURE, THEMING NATURE
- From expositions to theme parks
- Theme parks today
- Discovering the art in nature
- Notes
- Further reading
- Chapter 05 HERITAGE SOCIETY
- The turn to the past
- Heritage critiques
- A second life as display: heritage as political-economic asset
- Heritage as voice of the people?
- Note
- Further reading
- Chapter 06 OUT OF THE GLASS CASE
- Museums and culture
- Art, ethnicity and identity
- The folk, the people and the 'other within'
- Desperately seeking visitors
- New approaches to display: from objects to experiences
- Notes
- Further reading
- Chapter 07 VIRTUAL DESTINATIONS
- The Internet as visitable space
- Four kinds of virtual tourism
- Internet use as non-corporeal travel
- Virtual destinations
- Virtual museums
- A digital alternative to tourism?
- Conclusion
- Note
- Further reading
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
