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Of course, academic writings (often outdated ones) are only one source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