ABSTRACT: Not so long ago I interviewed a computer engineer in her home. Surrounded with toys and... more ABSTRACT: Not so long ago I interviewed a computer engineer in her home. Surrounded with toys and a napping baby—the interview time had been chosen carefully—she talked about how she worked as an independent contractor for a large electronics company. Connected by high-speed broadband, two telephone lines, and a cell phone, she felt fully integrated into the work, exchanging electronic files with her colleagues and having telephone conversations with customers two continents and umpteen time zones away. She told me she often worked late after the baby was in bed and during the…
A passage from Umberto Eco’s celebrated novel Foucault’s Pendulum captures succinctly the central... more A passage from Umberto Eco’s celebrated novel Foucault’s Pendulum captures succinctly the central theme of this book: how are places such as the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris, one of the key settings of Eco’s novel, transformed into ritual sites? How can scientific and technological relics, monuments to rationality and Enlightenment thinking, be infected by the strong enchantment
Abstract Reasons why tourists might be drawn to Brittany, France, are outlined, including what th... more Abstract Reasons why tourists might be drawn to Brittany, France, are outlined, including what they expect to find and how local people have responded to these expectations. It is suggested that the tourist ought to be given prominence as a figure that renders much ...
An investigation is made as to whether the values of the villagers of St. Maurice, a commune in t... more An investigation is made as to whether the values of the villagers of St. Maurice, a commune in the Val d'Aosta, Italy, are compatible with the expansion of tourism. The culture of the Mauricians is related to their distinctive alpine agriculture which is essentially a ...
Following a description of the islands and their history, the paper analyses the development of f... more Following a description of the islands and their history, the paper analyses the development of farm based tourism and its social, economic and environmental significance. It is shown how the historical development of tenancy agreements, coupled with the nature of farming ...
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropologic... more The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering, Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies as well as museum and heritage professionals. The introductory chapter is available to download at dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6268-5_601.pdf
Science, magic and religion: the ritual processes …, 2005
CHAPTER 7 THE PERFORMANCE OF HERITAGE IN A RECONSTRUCTED, POST-APARTHEID MUSEUM IN NAMIBIA Ian Fa... more CHAPTER 7 THE PERFORMANCE OF HERITAGE IN A RECONSTRUCTED, POST-APARTHEID MUSEUM IN NAMIBIA Ian Fairweather Introduction Every Wednesday and Friday a luxury coach leaves the world-famous Etosha national park in Namibia. Its European occupants have ...
Fernández-Montt, R., & Korstanje, M. (2010). El discurso nacionalista en la tragedia. Evaluac... more Fernández-Montt, R., & Korstanje, M. (2010). El discurso nacionalista en la tragedia. Evaluación ex post terremoto del 27/02. Sincronía. A Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Spring Issue, 1–20. Guidotti-Hernández, N. (2011). Unspeakable violence. Remapping us and Mexican national imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press. Korstanje, M., & Fernández Montt, R. (2011). Desastres y nacionalismo: Un análisis del show mediático Chile ayuda a Chile. International Journal of Zizek Studies, 5(4), 1–20. Korstanje, M., & Ivanov, S. (2012). Tourism as a form of new psychological resilience: The inception of dark tourism. CULTUR-Revista de Cultura e Turismo, 6(4), 56–71.
Cet article presente une reflexion sur une exposition temporaire relative aux pithecanthropes fos... more Cet article presente une reflexion sur une exposition temporaire relative aux pithecanthropes fossilises tenue au Musee National Hollandais d'Histoire Naturelle en 1993. Selon l'A. cette exposition s'inscrit dans le courant de pensee contemporain ou tout savoir est domine par les sciences et la scientification (voire le scientisme). L'organisation d'une telle exposition est sans conteste un processus politique complexe au niveau institutionnel.
This was a museum of technology, after all. You’re in a museum of technology, I told myself, an h... more This was a museum of technology, after all. You’re in a museum of technology, I told myself, an honest place, a little dull perhaps, but the dead here are harmless. You know what museums are, no one’s ever been devoured by the Mona Lisa – an androgynous Medusa only for esthetes – and you are even less likely to be devoured by Watt’s engine, a bugbear only for Ossianic and Neo-Gothic gentlemen, a pathetic compromise, really, between function and Corinthian elegance, handle and capital, boiler and column, wheel and tympanum. Jacapo Belbo, though he was far away, was trying to draw me into the hallucinations that had undone him. You must behave like a scientist, I told myself. A vulcanologist does not burn like Empedocles. Frazer did not flee, hounded, into the wood of Nemi. Come, you’re supposed to be Sam Spade. (Eco [1989] 2001: 12)
... upon a local (European) historical notion and trans-lating other notions into that model. The... more ... upon a local (European) historical notion and trans-lating other notions into that model. Thegenealogical figure is an apparently timeless artefact, as Bourdieu (1977: 38) observed, creating as it ... 1991), who says that there are intangibles (and she names kinship among them ...
Research on rural tourism is viewed as not only relating to urban pressure on rural space, but al... more Research on rural tourism is viewed as not only relating to urban pressure on rural space, but also to the rights of different social groups to space, and to a form of tourism which suits their cultural and economic backgrounds. A case study is presented of the Ardennes, Wallonia, ...
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996
... If the scientific form of pedigree, genealogy, systematically charted kinship connexions, the... more ... If the scientific form of pedigree, genealogy, systematically charted kinship connexions, then the graphic ... It is easy to imagine that an overview of Old Testament genealogical relations, from Adam ... The zeal with which Christ's ancestry was charted back beyond Jesse to Adam in ...
ABSTRACT: Not so long ago I interviewed a computer engineer in her home. Surrounded with toys and... more ABSTRACT: Not so long ago I interviewed a computer engineer in her home. Surrounded with toys and a napping baby—the interview time had been chosen carefully—she talked about how she worked as an independent contractor for a large electronics company. Connected by high-speed broadband, two telephone lines, and a cell phone, she felt fully integrated into the work, exchanging electronic files with her colleagues and having telephone conversations with customers two continents and umpteen time zones away. She told me she often worked late after the baby was in bed and during the…
A passage from Umberto Eco’s celebrated novel Foucault’s Pendulum captures succinctly the central... more A passage from Umberto Eco’s celebrated novel Foucault’s Pendulum captures succinctly the central theme of this book: how are places such as the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris, one of the key settings of Eco’s novel, transformed into ritual sites? How can scientific and technological relics, monuments to rationality and Enlightenment thinking, be infected by the strong enchantment
Abstract Reasons why tourists might be drawn to Brittany, France, are outlined, including what th... more Abstract Reasons why tourists might be drawn to Brittany, France, are outlined, including what they expect to find and how local people have responded to these expectations. It is suggested that the tourist ought to be given prominence as a figure that renders much ...
An investigation is made as to whether the values of the villagers of St. Maurice, a commune in t... more An investigation is made as to whether the values of the villagers of St. Maurice, a commune in the Val d'Aosta, Italy, are compatible with the expansion of tourism. The culture of the Mauricians is related to their distinctive alpine agriculture which is essentially a ...
Following a description of the islands and their history, the paper analyses the development of f... more Following a description of the islands and their history, the paper analyses the development of farm based tourism and its social, economic and environmental significance. It is shown how the historical development of tenancy agreements, coupled with the nature of farming ...
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropologic... more The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering, Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies as well as museum and heritage professionals. The introductory chapter is available to download at dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6268-5_601.pdf
Science, magic and religion: the ritual processes …, 2005
CHAPTER 7 THE PERFORMANCE OF HERITAGE IN A RECONSTRUCTED, POST-APARTHEID MUSEUM IN NAMIBIA Ian Fa... more CHAPTER 7 THE PERFORMANCE OF HERITAGE IN A RECONSTRUCTED, POST-APARTHEID MUSEUM IN NAMIBIA Ian Fairweather Introduction Every Wednesday and Friday a luxury coach leaves the world-famous Etosha national park in Namibia. Its European occupants have ...
Fernández-Montt, R., & Korstanje, M. (2010). El discurso nacionalista en la tragedia. Evaluac... more Fernández-Montt, R., & Korstanje, M. (2010). El discurso nacionalista en la tragedia. Evaluación ex post terremoto del 27/02. Sincronía. A Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Spring Issue, 1–20. Guidotti-Hernández, N. (2011). Unspeakable violence. Remapping us and Mexican national imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press. Korstanje, M., & Fernández Montt, R. (2011). Desastres y nacionalismo: Un análisis del show mediático Chile ayuda a Chile. International Journal of Zizek Studies, 5(4), 1–20. Korstanje, M., & Ivanov, S. (2012). Tourism as a form of new psychological resilience: The inception of dark tourism. CULTUR-Revista de Cultura e Turismo, 6(4), 56–71.
Cet article presente une reflexion sur une exposition temporaire relative aux pithecanthropes fos... more Cet article presente une reflexion sur une exposition temporaire relative aux pithecanthropes fossilises tenue au Musee National Hollandais d'Histoire Naturelle en 1993. Selon l'A. cette exposition s'inscrit dans le courant de pensee contemporain ou tout savoir est domine par les sciences et la scientification (voire le scientisme). L'organisation d'une telle exposition est sans conteste un processus politique complexe au niveau institutionnel.
This was a museum of technology, after all. You’re in a museum of technology, I told myself, an h... more This was a museum of technology, after all. You’re in a museum of technology, I told myself, an honest place, a little dull perhaps, but the dead here are harmless. You know what museums are, no one’s ever been devoured by the Mona Lisa – an androgynous Medusa only for esthetes – and you are even less likely to be devoured by Watt’s engine, a bugbear only for Ossianic and Neo-Gothic gentlemen, a pathetic compromise, really, between function and Corinthian elegance, handle and capital, boiler and column, wheel and tympanum. Jacapo Belbo, though he was far away, was trying to draw me into the hallucinations that had undone him. You must behave like a scientist, I told myself. A vulcanologist does not burn like Empedocles. Frazer did not flee, hounded, into the wood of Nemi. Come, you’re supposed to be Sam Spade. (Eco [1989] 2001: 12)
... upon a local (European) historical notion and trans-lating other notions into that model. The... more ... upon a local (European) historical notion and trans-lating other notions into that model. Thegenealogical figure is an apparently timeless artefact, as Bourdieu (1977: 38) observed, creating as it ... 1991), who says that there are intangibles (and she names kinship among them ...
Research on rural tourism is viewed as not only relating to urban pressure on rural space, but al... more Research on rural tourism is viewed as not only relating to urban pressure on rural space, but also to the rights of different social groups to space, and to a form of tourism which suits their cultural and economic backgrounds. A case study is presented of the Ardennes, Wallonia, ...
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996
... If the scientific form of pedigree, genealogy, systematically charted kinship connexions, the... more ... If the scientific form of pedigree, genealogy, systematically charted kinship connexions, then the graphic ... It is easy to imagine that an overview of Old Testament genealogical relations, from Adam ... The zeal with which Christ's ancestry was charted back beyond Jesse to Adam in ...
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