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Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa examines the multiple and diverse manifestations of cultural heritage-based tourism in Africa from a regional, social science, and sustainability perspective. This book delivers a comprehensive treatise on the interdependent concepts of cultural heritage and tourism.Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism assets worldwide and lies at the foundations of tourism in many localities, including Africa.However, despite its salience, there has not been a systematic examination of Africa’s heritage resources, markets, policies, practices, successes, and challenges in a tourism framework, despite the continent’s immense heritage value.This book reviews the different types of heritages that pervade the cultural environment of Africa and comprises its vast heritagescapes.It also examines the increasing potential for the growth of heritage tourism throughout the entire continent.The contributions in this volume delve into current thinking about space and place and their effects on heritage, mobilities, globalization, colonialism and indigeneity, conflict, identity and nation-building, connections with other regions through migration and the slave trade, and a greater emphasis on the ordinary heritage of Africa, which has long been ignored by tourism scholars and industry representatives.The chapters herein are authored by Africa specialists, most being from Africa, offering a truly African perspective.The chapters are conceptually rigorous and empirically rich with examples from all regions of the African continent. This unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at cultural heritage and tourism in Africa delivers strong value and is a vital resource for all students and researchers of tourism, cultural studies, heritage studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, and global studies.
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Cultural Heritage and Tourism : An Introduction
Cultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world.This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism.The second edition has been updated to include timely and emerging topics such as geopolitics, conflict, solidarity tourism, overtourism and climate change.It also expands on important areas such as environmental change, technology, social media, heritage economics, Indigenous knowledge and co-created experiences.This edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material, figures and pedagogical tools.It remains an important and accessible text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural and heritage tourism, cultural resource management, and museum management.
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Cultural Tourism
Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management.The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism.The current edition takes this further to base the discussion of cultural tourism in the theory and practice of cultural and heritage management (CM and CHM), under the understanding that for tourism to thrive, a balanced approach to the resource base it uses must be maintained.An ‘umbrella approach’ to cultural tourism represents a unique feature of the book, proposing solutions to achieve an optimal outcome for all sectors.Reflecting the many important developments in the field this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways: New content on increasingly relevant topics including sustainability, climate change, the threat of de-globalization, overtourism and social media. New sections on experience creation, accessibility and inclusivity, as well as expanded material on creative industries and new management challenges. New international case studies and tried-and-tested assignment exercises have been added to every chapter. Written by experts in both tourism and cultural heritage management, this book will enable professionals and students to gain a better understanding of their own and each other’s roles in achieving sustainable cultural tourism.It provides a blueprint for producing top-quality, long-term cultural tourism products.
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Transmedia Narratives for Cultural Heritage : Remixing History
Transmedia Narratives for Cultural Heritage focuses on theoretical approaches to the analysis and creative practice of developing non-fiction digital transmedia narratives in the rapidly growing cultural heritage sector. This book applies a media-focused transdisciplinary approach to understand the conventions of emerging digital narrative genres.Considering digital media’s impact on narrative creation and reception, the approach, namely remixed transmedia, can aid practitioners in creating strategic non-fiction narratives for cultural heritage.These creations also need to be evaluated and a digital-media focused ‘ludonarrative toolkit’ allows for the critical analysis of the composition and public participation in interactive digital narratives.This toolkit is applied and exemplified in genres including virtual museums, serious games, and interactive documentaries.The book also includes a seven-phase theoretical framework that can assist future creators (and project managers) of non-fiction transmedia ‘mothership’ narratives; and a methodology (based on ‘big data analysis’) for how to invent new cultural heritage narratives through bottom-up remixing that allows for public inclusion.Two transnational case studies on the 11 UNESCO World Heritage Australian Convict Sites and the Irish National Famine Way demonstrate the seven-phase framework’s applicability. As many scholars across disciplines are increasingly creating digital narratives on historical topics for public consumption in various forms, the theoretical foundations and practical project management framework will be useful for scholars and project teams in the domains of transmedia studies, interactive narratives, cultural heritage, media studies, comparative literature, and journalism.
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What is a cultural heritage?
Cultural heritage refers to the traditions, customs, beliefs, and artifacts that are passed down from generation to generation within a society. It encompasses the tangible and intangible aspects of a culture, including historical sites, monuments, art, music, language, and rituals. Cultural heritage plays a crucial role in shaping a community's identity and preserving its unique heritage for future generations. It is an important part of a society's history and contributes to its sense of belonging and continuity.
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Is the Drachenschanze a German cultural heritage site?
Yes, the Drachenschanze is considered a German cultural heritage site. It is a historic site in the Harz Mountains that has been preserved and protected due to its cultural significance. The Drachenschanze is a medieval fortification that played a role in the region's history, making it an important part of Germany's cultural heritage. Its historical and architectural significance has led to its recognition as a cultural heritage site in Germany.
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Is Drachenlord and the Drachengame considered German cultural heritage?
Drachenlord and the Drachengame are not officially recognized as German cultural heritage. While they may have gained a following and become a notable part of internet culture in Germany, they do not hold the same status as traditional cultural elements such as literature, music, or art that are typically associated with being part of a country's cultural heritage. Additionally, the controversial nature of Drachenlord and the Drachengame may make it less likely to be officially recognized as cultural heritage.
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Is the Drachenlord and the Drachengame German cultural heritage?
The Drachenlord and the Drachengame are not considered German cultural heritage in the traditional sense. They are more of a modern internet phenomenon that has gained popularity in certain online communities. While they may have a following and be part of contemporary German internet culture, they do not hold the same historical or cultural significance as traditional German heritage sites or practices.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China : A Critical Approach
This book examines the complexities and dynamics in the relationship between intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and tourism, taking as a focus the ICH at the World Cultural Heritage site in Lijiang, China.It explores the tensions between the protection of authenticity of ICH and the use of ICH in tourism commodification, and considers the perspectives of governmental officials, experts, local ICH practitioners and community members.The volume aims to redefine the concepts of authenticity, integrity and continuity from the perspective of the ICH practitioners and to provide theoretical guidelines for developing a sustainable ICH tourism using a people-based approach.It will be a helpful resource for students, researchers and practitioners in heritage studies, tourism, anthropology, cultural management and Chinese studies.
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Zombies: A Cultural History : A Cultural History
Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster.
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Digital Cultural Heritage
This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation.The professions, organizations and scientific associations involved are unusually challenged by the complexity of the data situation.Cartography has always been the central field of application for georeferencing digital cultural heritage (DCH) objects.It is particularly important in enabling spatial relation analysis between any number of DCH objects or of their granular details.In addition to the pure geometric aspects, the cognitive relations that lead to knowledge representation and derivation of innovative use processes are also of increasing importance.Further, there is a societal demand for spatial reference and analytics (e.g. the extensive use of cognitive concepts of "map" and "atlas" for a variety of social topics in the media).There is a huge geometrical-logical-cognitive potential for complex, multimedia, digital-cultural-heritage databases and stakeholders expect handling, transmission and processing operations with guaranteed long-term availability for all other stakeholders.In the future, whole areas of digital multimedia databases will need to be processed to further our understanding of historical and cultural contexts.This is an important concern for the information society and presents significant challenges for cartography in all these domains. This book collects innovative technical and scientific work on the entire process of object digitization, including detail extraction, archiving and interoperability of multimedia DCH data.
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Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history.Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, mausoleums in Timbuktu, and Greco-Roman remains in Syria.Cultural heritage destruction invariably accompanies assaults on civilians, making heritage attacks impossible to disentangle from the mass atrocities of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing.Both seek to eliminate people and the heritage with which they identify.Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities assembles essays by thirty-eight experts from the heritage, social science, humanitarian, legal, and military communities.Focusing on immovable cultural heritage vulnerable to attack, the volume's guiding framework is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a United Nations resolution adopted unanimously in 2005 to permit international intervention against crimes of war or genocide.Based on the three pillars of prevent, react, and rebuild, R2P offers today's policymakers a set of existing laws and international norms that can and--as this book argues--must be extended to the protection of cultural heritage.Contributions consider the global value of cultural heritage and document recent attacks on people and sites in China, Guatemala, Iraq, Mali, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen.Comprehensive sections on vulnerable populations as well as the role of international law and the military offer readers critical insights and point toward research, policy, and action agendas to protect both people and cultural heritage.A concise abstract of each chapter is offered online in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish to facilitate robust, global dissemination of the strategies and tactics offered in this pathbreaking call to action. The free online edition of this publication is available at getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities.Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
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Can European culture transfer its values to other cultural circles?
European culture has a long history of influencing and being influenced by other cultures, making it possible for its values to be transferred to other cultural circles. Through colonization, trade, and globalization, European values such as democracy, human rights, and individualism have spread to various parts of the world. However, the extent to which these values are adopted and integrated into other cultural circles can vary depending on factors such as historical context, local traditions, and societal norms. Ultimately, the transfer of European cultural values to other cultural circles is a complex and ongoing process that involves both adaptation and resistance.
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Is cultural diversity a prerequisite for understanding one's own culture?
Cultural diversity can provide valuable perspectives and insights that can enhance one's understanding of their own culture. By interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds, individuals can gain a deeper appreciation for their own cultural norms, values, and traditions. Exposure to diverse cultures can also challenge assumptions and biases, leading to a more critical and nuanced understanding of one's own cultural identity. However, while cultural diversity can be beneficial in this regard, it is not necessarily a prerequisite for understanding one's own culture, as individuals can also develop a strong sense of cultural identity through introspection, education, and engagement with their own community.
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Why is Currywurst considered a German cultural heritage, even though curry comes from India?
Currywurst is considered a German cultural heritage because it was invented in Germany and has become a beloved and iconic dish in the country. The combination of curry and sausage was created in Berlin in 1949 by Herta Heuwer, and it quickly gained popularity throughout Germany. While curry is indeed a spice that originated in India, the unique blend of curry sauce and sausage in Currywurst reflects the culinary fusion and adaptation that occurs when different cultures interact. As a result, Currywurst has become a symbol of German culinary tradition and cultural identity.
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Is cultural globalization a threat to the original culture of each country?
Cultural globalization can be seen as a threat to the original culture of each country in some ways. As global media and technology spread, there is a risk of homogenizing cultures and diluting the unique traditions and customs of each country. However, cultural globalization also provides an opportunity for the exchange and appreciation of diverse cultures, leading to a more interconnected and inclusive global society. It is important for countries to actively preserve and promote their original culture while also embracing the positive aspects of cultural globalization.
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