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Of course, academic writings (often outdated ones) are only one source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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