Hello,
As a Masters in Heritage Preservation and Cultural Anthropology, I am very interested in this topic.  I cannot attend the conference but would be very interested in obtaining a copy of the discussion.  Is this possible, do you think?

Best,
Laurie Sedicino

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>Subject: [MUSEUM-L] CFP - Imagineering the past: The (mis)uses of anthropology and archaeology in tourism
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Imagineering the past: The (mis)uses of anthropology and archaeology in 
>tourism
>ASA09 - Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: Past, present 
>and future
>University of Bristol, UK, 6-9 April 2009
>
>Organizer: Dr. Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven)
>
>In a bid to obtain a piece of the lucrative global tourism pie, 
>destinations worldwide are trying to play up their local 
>distinctiveness. This is sometimes done by borrowing from traditional 
>ethnology an ontological and essentialist vision of exotic cultures, 
>conceived as static entities with clearly defined characteristics. Ideas 
>of old-style colonial anthropology and archaeology – objectifying, 
>reifying, homogenizing, and naturalizing peoples – are widely (mis)used 
>in international tourism by individuals and organizations staking claims 
>of identity and cultural belonging on imagined notions of place and 
>locality. Ironically, this is happening at a time when anthropologists 
>and archaeologists alike prefer more constructivist approaches to human 
>heritage, taking it for granted that cultures and societies were never 
>passive, bounded and homogeneous entities.
>Of course, academic writings (often outdated ones) are only one source 
>of inspiration that shape tourism imaginaries of peoples and places, but 
>they are an underestimated and under-researched one. While there is a 
>growing literature on how fieldworkers engage with tourism, at their 
>research sites or on a theoretical level, there has been little 
>systematic investigation of how archaeological and anthropological 
>knowledge is (mis)used, à la carte, by tourism stakeholders to produce 
>easily sellable interpretations of heritage (and, in the process, 
>transforming local peoples’ lives). This panel presents empirical case 
>studies that critically analyse which aspects of the two disciplines are 
>used in tourism to create nostalgic essentializing imagery of so-called 
>authentic traditions and cultures and what the ascribed and 
>self-identified roles and responsibilities of scholars are in these 
>processes.
>
>If you are interested in participating, please go to the conference 
>website (http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa09/panels.php5?PanelID=532), 
>click the ‘Propose a paper’ link and follow the instructions.
>Note that the deadline is February 6.
>General instructions about submitting abstracts: 
>http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/papers.htm
>More information about the conference in general: 
>http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/
>High-quality papers will be selected for publication in an edited volume.
>
>--
>Dr. Noel B. SALAZAR obtained his PhD from the Department of Anthropology 
>at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is currently a Postdoctoral 
>Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) 
>and a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural 
>Change, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK). His research interests 
>include anthropologies of mobility, the local-to-global nexus, 
>discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture brokering and contact, 
>and public interest ethnographies. More information about his projects 
>and publications is available online:
>http://nbsalazar.flyurl.net/
>-- 
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>Noel B. Salazar, PhD
>Marie Curie Fellow (EC, FP7-PEOPLE-IRG)
>Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
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