Understanding the intersection of the present and the past…

 

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The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek
Island

Philip Duke

Published August 2007, 160 pages, $29.95 paperback

 

As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary
archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as
the past.  Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks,
and tourist brochures, this book engages the theoretically and pragmatically
complicated intersections of heritage, tourism and community.  It is
concerned with the Minoan past and how it serves as a metanarrative for
western social inequality, with the packaging and reception of that past and
with the degree and nature of the tourist’s agency in engaging with it.  It
will stimulate discussion and promote further scholarly attention to the
role of heritage exploitation in today’s globalized world of tourism and
commodification.

 

"As a work of applied archaeological ethnography Duke marvelously negotiates
his way between the subjective and objective. His inclusion of selected
diary notes, tables analyzing tourist facilities, and guidebooks at more
than a dozen sites is highly original and establishes new worthwhile
methodologies for this kind of study. His comparative discussion of
market-oriented cultural heritage exploitation and socially-focused and
community-owned heritage use raises issues that should be considered by all
parties involved with archaeological sites and tourism. This group includes
archaeologists who can not and must not ignore the political and social
ramifications of their work. " 

- From the Foreword by Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois 

 

 

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