Souvenirs

Souvenirs

The Material Culture of Tourism

Graburn, Nelson H.; Hitchcock, Michael; Teague, Ken

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2000

306

Dura

Inglês

9780754610557

A discussion of souvenirs with memorial functions, using a number of case studies. A key focus of many of the chapters is the question of meaning: what is the meaning of any particular souvenir or collection, and for whom does it bear that meaning?
Souvenirs with soul - 800 years of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Michael Houlihan; tourism and material culture in Turkey, Jennifer Scarce; reproducing India - international exhibitions and Victorian tourism, Nicky Levell; from earliest contacts - an examination of Inuit and Aleut art in Scottish collections, Briony Crozier; exotic souvenirs of the travelling surrealists, Louise Tythacott; women's suffrage souvenirs, Katherine Bradley; "souvenir gifts" as tokens of filial esteem - the meanings of Blackpool souvenirs, Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars; transformations of the tourist and souvenir - the travels and collections of Philla Davis, Andrew West; contemporary crafts as souvenirs, artefacts and functional goods and their role in local economic diversification and cultural development, Graeme Evans; tourism and Ainu identity, Hokkaido, Northern Japan, Jane Wilkinson; Awaji Ningyo - its changing role within a local, national and international community, Jennifer Verlini; stealing souls for souvenirs -or why tourists want "the real thing", Stephanie Bunn; tourist markets and Himalayan craftsmen, Ken Teague; ceramic arts of Peru and Ecuador - echoes of the Prehispanic past and influences of the tourist present, George Bankes; souvenirs from Kambot (Papua New Guinea) -the sacred search for authenticity, Roberta Colombo Dougoud; souvenirs, ethics and aesthetics - some contemporary dilemmas in the South Pacific, Nick Stanley; Kente connections - the role of the Internet in developing an economic base for Ghana, Margaret Grieco; Dalecarlian masks - one souvenir's many voices, Monica Hanefors and Tom Selwyn; the "Whimsey" - a part of American and Canadian Victoriana, Ian West.
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