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Performing culture in the global village
Critique of anthropology • 17 • Published In 1997 • Pages: 67-89
By: Tilley, Christopher.
Abstract
In this paper Tilley '…discusses the revival and performance of cultural traditions and 'ethnic lives' for a tourist audience in the third and fourth worlds using the example of a newly emergent development on Wala island, Malekula, Vanuatu. It examines issues of the commodification and objectification of culture, in the light of debates about the 'invention of tradition', in relation to a global tourist industry. A major concern is with the politics and values involved in an active appropriation on the part of indigenous populations of their past and how this might relate to a notion of authenticity in the context of a Melanesian culture' (p. 67).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Wala Island, northeast Malekula, Vanuatu
- Notes
- Christopher Tilley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88)
- LCCN
- 78640439
- LCSH
- Malekula (Vanuatu)