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

The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598741421)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island by Duke, Philip

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

$190.00
The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island by Duke, Philip

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

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Philip Duke
ISBN-10: 159874142X
ISBN-13: 9781598741421
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2007
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.07w x 0.64d
By Philip Duke
By Philip Duke
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Philip Duke is professor of anthropology at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, where he has taught since 1980. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Until recently, his professional work has been conducted on the archaeology of western North America, about which he has written Points in Time: Structure and Event in a Late Northern Plains Hunting Society. He is co-editor of Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique and of Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics . His research specialties include public archaeology and repatriation issues. He also works with the Ludlow Collective at the archaeological site of the 1914 Ludlow massacre near Trinidad, Colorado.

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