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

by: Duke, Ph.

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Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps us understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists? view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island of Crete, both Minoan and modern.

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. Philip Duke?s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps us understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists? view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island of Crete, both Minoan and modern.

Contents:
Ch. 1. Touring the past
ch. 2. The Minoan past
ch. 3. Tourists and the constructed past
ch. 4. Modern Crete, ancient Minoans, and the tourist experience
ch. 5. Constructing a prehistory
ch. 6. The nexus of the past

Subjects:
Antiquities
Crete (Greece) Antiquities
Crète (Grèce) Antiquités
Greece Crete
Minoans
Minoens
Tourism
Tourism Greece Crete

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

by: Duke, Ph.

• ISBN-13: 9781598741438 / 978-1-59874-143-8
• ISBN-03: 1598741438 / 1-59874-143-8
• Left Coast Press Inc., Walnut Greek, CA, 2007

Price: 32,40 EURO

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