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Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for cross-cultural tourism, museums, and heritage.

Recommended Reading:

The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress by Shelly Errington 1998

Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998

Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers by Dean MacCannell 1992

A Field Guide to America's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses: The Western States by Virginia McAlester and A. Lee McAlester 1998

Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith 1989

Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement by Caren Kaplan 1996

Sustainable Tourism: A Marketing Perspective by Victor T. C. Middleton, Rebecca Hawkins, Lorin Toepper & Peter Williams

Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective by Erve Chambers (Editor) 1997

Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds by Ruth B. Phillips & Christopher B. Steiner (Editors) 1999

 

Links:

  1. American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
  2. ArchNet: Guide to Online Museums
  3. Conservation OnLine (CoOL) -- Stanford University
  4. Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation, State Library of Victoria
  5. Museum Computer Network
  6. Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft compiled by Laura Pope Robbins.