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Heritage Commodification
Section
The Interesting List
Type
Annotated Link
Date
February 26, 2020
Tags
travel, society, anthropology

“ There is a ‘tourist gaze,’ whereby history and cultural heritage is packaged for what the locals believe tourists want to see, and what tourists believe is ‘authentic.’ Local economies perpetuate this overemphasis and misrepresentation in exchange for tourist dollars. ”

Nacirema
Section
The Interesting List
Type
Annotated Link
Date
February 21, 2022
Tags
anthropology, language, society

“ U.S. anthropologists will sometimes refer to ‘America/American’ by another word in order to maintain professional distance and objectivity from it. ”