The Making of Heritage: Seduction and Disenchantment

ISBN-13: 9780415843867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str.

Camila Del Marmol; Marc A. Morell; Jasper Chalcraft

Opis

This volume explores the process of heritage making and its relation to the production of touristic places, examining several case studies around the world. Most existing literature on heritage and tourism centers either on its managerial aspects, the tourist experience, or issues related to inequality and identity politics. This volume instead establishes theoretical links between analyses of heritage and the production and reproduction of places in the context of the global tourist trade. The approach adopted here is to explore the production of heritage as a complex process shaped by local and global discourses that can have a deep impact on several policies and legislations. Heritage itself has now become not only a global discourse, but also a global practice, which may eventually lead to the use of heritage as a field for hegemony. From these perspectives, heritage making may be incorporated in the world economy, mainly through the global tourism trade. The chapters in this book stress the need for identifying the intrinsic political implications of these processes, relocating their study in political, economic and social settings. Combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches and research methods, guided by a common thematic rationale, The Making of Heritage is at the forefront of current debates about heritage.

Spis treści

Introduction: Of Seduction and Disenchantment: An Approach to the Heritage Process Camila del Mármol, Marc Morell and Jasper Chalcraft 1. Metaculture and its Malcontents: World Heritage in Southwestern Libya Jasper Chalcraft 2. Buddhist Circuits and Worlding Practices in North India David Geary 3. Seductions and Disenchantments in the Making of an Ecomuseum Cristina Grasseni 4. Imprisoning Ethnic Heritage in French Guiana: The Seduction of a Penal Colony Bernard Cherubini 5. Indigenous Crafts, Political Re-enchantment and the Rationale of Heritage Making in Costa Rica Julien Laverdure 6. Mexico for Sale: The Manipulation of Cultural Heritage for Tourism Purposes: The Case of the Xcaret Night Show Rafael Guerrero-Rodríguez 7. Feeding Disenchantment: On the Heritage Intricacies of Cookery Books and the Olive Oil Festival in Malta Elise Billiard 8. Tourism Values and the Becoming Ordinary of Heritage Marc Morell

O autorze

Camila del Mármol works as a　Professora Associada　at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She has pursued ethnographic research in the Catalan Pyrenees focusing on the development of heritage processes. She is the author of Pasados locales, políticas globales. Procesos de patrimonialización en un valle del Pirineo catalán (2012).

Marc Morell works as a　Professor Associat　at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. Besides his affiliation to various associations,　he　is actively involved in the　Política, Treball i Sostenibilitat research group at the　Universitat de les Illes Balears　and　the　Observatori de l’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà　at the　Universitat de Barcelona.

Jasper Chalcraft is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK. He has conducted fieldwork at three World Heritage rock art sites, in alpine Italy, central Tanzania and south western Libya. He is currently project manager for the CHaP (Cultural Heritage and Peacebuilding) project in the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History and a Visiting Lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche, Italy.