1st Edition
The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island
By Philip Duke
Copyright 2007
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps... Read more
Chapter One Touring the Past; Chapter Two The Minoan Past; Chapter Three Tourists and the Constructed Past; Chapter Four Modern Crete, Ancient Minoans, and the Tourist Experience; Chapter Five Constructing a Prehistory; Chapter Six The Nexus of the Past;
Biography
Philip Duke
