Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Book Overview

Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects--and people--are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209664
• ISBN13: 9780520209664
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 9.1"