Mythic Frontiers: Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism (Cultural Heritage Studies) - Tapa dura

Maher, Daniel R

 
9780813062532: Mythic Frontiers: Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism (Cultural Heritage Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0813062535 ISBN 13: 9780813062532
Editorial: University Press of Florida, 2016

Sinopsis

The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see.

In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

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Daniel R. Maher is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, USA.

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Editorial
University Press of Florida
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813062535
ISBN 13 
9780813062532
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Número de páginas
314
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9780813064185: Mythic Frontiers: Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism (Cultural Heritage Studies)

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ISBN 10:  081306418X ISBN 13:  9780813064185
Editorial: University Press of Florida, 2019
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