READINGS FOR TOURIST PRODUCTIONS

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You will find information and links here for:

• Where to find the readings
• Resource bibliographies
• Full texts of articles, including student research papers.

Texts for the course may be found at:

• NYU Book Center, 18 Washington Place, 998-4667
• Performance Studies Archive, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, 998-1560
• Bobst Reserve Desk, 998-2475

You can also check other bookstores in New York City.

There are several bibliographies for the course. New ones will be added and, when possible, bibliographies will be updated. Please send citations for publications not found here to krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu

• Required and recommended texts, 1998
• Required and recommended texts, 1995
• Course bibliography to 1995
• Supplementary course bibliography to 1987
• 656 Articles to 1993
• Anthropology of tourism (articles) to 1995
• Architecture of tourism (articles) to 1995
• Tourism policy and practice 1993-95
• Heritage
• Guides and Guiding
• Rare materials of art historical interest
• Journals

Articles are accessible here courtesy of their authors. They are for class use only. Please consult the published versions on reserve for footnotes and illustrations and when citing or quoting from them.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

• Destination Museum
• Afterlives: Performance, Tourism, and Identity
• Folklore's Crisis
• Common Coin
• Confusing Pleasures
• Making Difference: Mapping the Discourse of Multiculturalism
• Mistaken Dichotomies
• Objects of Ethnography
• A Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs
• Plimoth Plantation
• Producing Ellis Island
• Secrets of Encounter
• Spaces of Dispersal
• The Ethnographic Burlesque
• Sounds of Sensibility: Reflections on the Klezmer Revival
• Disputing Taste

Edward M. Bruner

• Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism"
• The Ethnographer-Tourist in Indonesia
• Lincoln's New Salem as a Contested Site
• Tourism in the Balinese Borderzone

Edward M. Bruner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

• Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa

Tamar Katriel

• Performing the Past: Presentational Styles in Settlement Museum Interpretation
• Sites of Memory: Discourse of the Past in Israeli Pioneering Settlement Museums

Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright

• Forty Years of Rehearsal: Civic Ceremony as a Field for Memory and Social Identity--on the history of Holocaust commemoration in New York City

Craig Rosa

• Shmura Matzo Baking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: A Proselytourism Production

Diana Taylor

• A Savage Performance

Gregory L. Ulmer

• Metaphoric Rocks: A Psychogeography of Tourism and Monumentality

Student Research Papers

• Sara Brady, 160 Miles of Steel: How Bethlehem's Historic District Erases the South Side
• Elke Kaschl, Beyond the Nation in Israeli Folk Dancing? The Politics of Space, Time, and Authenticity at the 92nd Street Y and the Town and Village Synagogue
• Lisa Maya Knauer, Eating in Cuban: Place-Making, Consumption, and Imagined Community
• Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Brooklyn Bridge Bound
• Lacey Torge, Commodifying and Consuming Kitsch at the "Original Drag Queen Restaurant"
• Sophia Vackimes, Wall Street Enshrined
• John Wineland, The Havana Bienale