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Book Review: Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage

Book Review: Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage TS Book Reviews 16/7/2001 4:01 pm Page 110 tourist studies 1:1 Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-520-20966-4 (pbk). There are two themes underlying the collection of essays that comprise Destination Culture: what is meant by cultural displays and why culture takes us on both literal and virtual travel. Ethnomusicologist Kirshenblatt-Gimblett begins in the 19th cen- tury by examining how museums originally formed alternatives to the expense of travel by bringing the objects of curiosity to the visitor.Yet these objects had, until that time, performed everyday functions for their owners and were only identified as objects of curiosity by the ethnographers who collected them. It was these ethno- graphers who imbued them with the meaning that was subsequently communicat- ed to the museum visitors through their display in a museum.These objects includ- ed people from other cultures who took part in living dioramas for the visitor, an early form of living history perhaps? Kirshenblatt-Gimblett goes on to use the changing display of Jewish artefacts, and thus culture, as a case study. Today, while travel has become more accessible, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett argues that culture is still a destination, though http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

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SAGE
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Copyright © by SAGE Publications
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1468-7976
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1741-3206
DOI
10.1177/146879760100100109
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TS Book Reviews 16/7/2001 4:01 pm Page 110 tourist studies 1:1 Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-520-20966-4 (pbk). There are two themes underlying the collection of essays that comprise Destination Culture: what is meant by cultural displays and why culture takes us on both literal and virtual travel. Ethnomusicologist Kirshenblatt-Gimblett begins in the 19th cen- tury by examining how museums originally formed alternatives to the expense of travel by bringing the objects of curiosity to the visitor.Yet these objects had, until that time, performed everyday functions for their owners and were only identified as objects of curiosity by the ethnographers who collected them. It was these ethno- graphers who imbued them with the meaning that was subsequently communicat- ed to the museum visitors through their display in a museum.These objects includ- ed people from other cultures who took part in living dioramas for the visitor, an early form of living history perhaps? Kirshenblatt-Gimblett goes on to use the changing display of Jewish artefacts, and thus culture, as a case study. Today, while travel has become more accessible, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett argues that culture is still a destination, though

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Tourist Studies: An International JournalSAGE

Published: Jun 1, 2001

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