Souvenirs : the material culture of tourism
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Souvenirs : the material culture of tourism
（University of North London voices in development management）
Ashgate, c2000
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Description
Souvenirs, broadly conceived, are generally thought to be the material counterpart of travels, events, relationships and memories of all kinds. The material items classed as souvenirs discussed in this text have memorial functions, usually connected with the owner's travels. But not all of the items are souvenirs of tourism; they are also souvenirs of other past phenomena, such as political events (suffragettes), colonial history (India), former artistic pre-eminence (Awaji Ningyo puppetry) or former ways of life (South American ceramic archaisms). The authors do not necessarily focus on material souvenirs in their memorial function as prompters of memory. They also use their case studies as starting points for the discussion of many interesting contemporary phenomena, such as cottage industries for economic development in Mexico and Ainu, as devices to invigorate or maintain artistic practices, as emblems of cultural conformity (Surrealists) or as symbolic weapons in national and international political arguments. A key focus of many of the chapters is the question of meaning: what is the meaning of any particular souvenir or collection, and for whom does it bear that meaning?
Table of Contents
- Souvenirs with soul - 800 years of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Michael Houlihan
- tourism and material culture in Turkey, Jennifer Scarce
- reproducing India - international exhibitions and Victorian tourism, Nicky Levell
- from earliest contacts - an examination of Inuit and Aleut art in Scottish collections, Briony Crozier
- exotic souvenirs of the travelling surrealists, Louise Tythacott
- women's suffrage souvenirs, Katherine Bradley
- "souvenir gifts" as tokens of filial esteem - the meanings of Blackpool souvenirs, Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars
- transformations of the tourist and souvenir - the travels and collections of Philla Davis, Andrew West
- contemporary crafts as souvenirs, artefacts and functional goods and their role in local economic diversification and cultural development, Graeme Evans
- tourism and Ainu identity, Hokkaido, Northern Japan, Jane Wilkinson
- Awaji Ningyo - its changing role within a local, national and international community, Jennifer Verlini
- stealing souls for souvenirs -or why tourists want "the real thing", Stephanie Bunn
- tourist markets and Himalayan craftsmen, Ken Teague
- ceramic arts of Peru and Ecuador - echoes of the Prehispanic past and influences of the tourist present, George Bankes
- souvenirs from Kambot (Papua New Guinea) -the sacred search for authenticity, Roberta Colombo Dougoud
- souvenirs, ethics and aesthetics - some contemporary dilemmas in the South Pacific, Nick Stanley
- Kente connections - the role of the Internet in developing an economic base for Ghana, Margaret Grieco
- Dalecarlian masks - one souvenir's many voices, Monica Hanefors and Tom Selwyn
- the "Whimsey" - a part of American and Canadian Victoriana, Ian West.
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