Souvenir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Souvenir write by Rolf Potts. This book was released on 2018-03-08. Souvenir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel
Tourism and Souvenirs
Tourism and Souvenirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourism and Souvenirs write by Jenny Cave. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Tourism and Souvenirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Souvenirs are part of global and local travel and tourism in all corners of the world. This book portrays souvenirs as expressions of culture and as triggers of cultural change. The volume provides critique and theorisation of souvenirs of places, people and experiences in the context of lives lived at the margins of society, politics, tourism flows and urbanisation. Case studies in sustainable tourism illustrate dynamic ways that consumers and suppliers use souvenirs to respond to, resist and (re)interpret global and local influences upon cultures across informal, hybrid and formal economies.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Museum of African American History and Culture write by Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult. This book was released on 2016-09-27. National Museum of African American History and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an American.
Tourism Art and Souvenirs
Tourism Art and Souvenirs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourism Art and Souvenirs write by David Hume. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Tourism Art and Souvenirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and cultural anthropology, and demonstrates that tourist art is a unique expression of place and genuine artistic style. The first investigation to consider the activity of souvenirs from both indigenous and settler tourist sites, it brings a unique addition to the existing, dated, research in the area. Working initially from Graburn’s definition of tourist art, as the art of one culture made specifically for the consumption of another, Tourism Art and Souvenirs sheds light on important aspects of the souvenir that have not been widely discussed. The most recent research is used to consider how the souvenir is designed and consumed, consumer expectations and influence on the character of the souvenir, how the souvenir maker is consumed by the tradition of heritage and how products become successful as souvenirs. The title also investigates the language involved in the representation of place and the recording of experience through the souvenir, developing a method that expresses the descriptive data of individual souvenir artefacts graphically so the patterns of language may be analysed. Enhancing the understanding of material culture in tourism and therefore adding to future tourism development this volume will be of interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in tourism, culture, heritage and sustainability.
Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges
Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges write by Sarah Blick. This book was released on 2007-07-08. Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brian Spencer, former Keeper of the Museum of London, was a major scholar of medieval popular culture. He almost single-handedly established the study of pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges. He defined what these objects were and ascertained their function, manufacture, style, and iconography with a careful use of primary documents and intricate stylistic analysis. He identified every major souvenir and badge discovered in Great Britain during the last few decades. He also made prominent contributions to the field of seal matrices, gaming pieces, and horse paraphernalia. What bound all of these interests together was his understanding that the study of these artefacts could shed light on the beliefs and practices of a large number of people. This is reflected in the frequency with which his work is cited. This volume is a collection of essays written by those who worked with Brian directly and those with whom he corresponded.
