TOURIST PRODUCTIONS
H42.1041
Spring 1998
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg
Class Newsgroup
Schedule
I INTRODUCTION
1, 1/20 Tourism and Performance Studies
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2. 1/27 Travelling Theory
Appadurai, Modernity at Large, pp. 1-47, 178-200.
Clifford, Routes, pp. 17-46.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Bruner, "Tourism,"
International Encyclopedia of Communication.
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3. 2/3 Theory of Travel
MacCannell, The Tourist.
2/4 Symposium: The African Burial Ground Memorial
6-8 pm, Van Alen Institute, 30 W. 22nd St (between
5th and 6th Aves), 212-264-6949. Dialogue with
the advisors who will recommend winning memorial
design projects. Reception to follow.
Lacey Torge, Minutes of the Symposium
African Burial Ground
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II TOURISMS OF THE EXOTIC
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4. 2/10 Savage Performance
SCREEN: Couple in the Cage.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Objects of Ethnography,"
in Destination Museum (online).
Fusco, "The Other History of Intercultural
Performance," English Is Broken Here, pp. 37-63
(also in TDR 1994).
Taylor, "A Savage
Performance: Reflections on Theatricality,
Performance and Ethnography," TDR (Summer
1998, in press).
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, The
Ethnographic Burlesque" TDR (Summer 1998, in
press).
Site visit: U.S. Museum of the American Indian
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WED 2/11 Cannibal Tours
7 pm, Studio, jointly with Politics and
Performance course.
SCREEN: Cannibal Tours.
Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions, pp. 72-85.
MacCannell, "Cannibalism Today," Empty Meeting
Grounds, pp. 17-73.
Lutkehaus, "'Excuse Me, Everything Is Not All
Right'": On Ethnography, Film, and Representation-
-An Interview with Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke,"
Cultural Anthropology 4,4 (1989): 422-437.
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5. 2/17 Primitivism/Modernism: Australian Aboriginal Art
SPEAKER--Fred Myers, "Framing Aboriginal Art."
Myers, "Culture Making: Performing Aboriginality
at the Asia Society Gallery," American Ethnologist
21,4 (1994): 679-699.
Myers, "Beyond the Intentional Fallacy: Art
Criticism and the Ethnography of Aboriginal
Acrylic Painting," Visual Anthropology Review 10,1
(1994): 10-43.
Beckett, "Aboriginality, Citizenship, and Nation
State," Social Analysis 24 (1988): 3-18.
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6. 2/24 Out of Africa: Masaai on the Lawn
Project proposal due.
SCREEN: In and Out of Africa
Bruner and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,
"Masaai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East
Africa," Cultural Anthropology 9,2 (1994):435-
470.
Steiner, African Art in Transit, pp. 1-15, 100-
164, and as much of the rest of the book as you
can.
Haraway, "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the
Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936," Social
Text 11 (1984): 20-64.
Site Visit: American Museum of Natural History
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7. 3/3 Brokering Culture: Festival of India
SPEAKER: Richard Kurin
Kurin, Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View
From the Smithsonian, pp. 1-26, 109-168.
Bauman, Sawin, and Carpenter, Reflections on the
Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant
Experience.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Confusing
Pleasures," Destination Museum.
VISIT:
Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies,
Smithsonian Institution. Follow the link to their virtual
Festival of American Folklife.
III. HERITAGE TOURISM
8. 3/10 Theorizing Heritage
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Destination Museum,"
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Plimoth Plantation,"
Handler, The New History in an Old Museum:
Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg.
Recommended
Snow, Performing the Pilgrims: A Study of
Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plantation
Colonial Williamsburg Home Page
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg Highlights Tour
Revolutionary Fun
Plimoth-on-Web
Walking Tour of Plimoth Plantation
Plimoth Plantation
3/12 12 noon-2 pm. Visit to the African Burial Ground,
US Customs House, Rm 239, 6 World Trade Center,
212-432-5707.
African Burial Ground
3/13 PSI Conference: 10 am-12:30 pm. Panel--
Archeologies of Death: African Burial Ground, CUNY
Graduate Center, 33 W. 42nd St (between Sixth and
Fifth Avenues)
PSI Program
9. 3/17 Spring break
10. 3/24 Memory/History I: African Burial Ground
SITE VISIT: 9:15-12:30 Museum of Jewish Heritage:
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Meet at the
Museum at 9:15 sharp. 18 First Place, Battery Park
City. 212-968-1800
Museum of Jewish Heritage
GUEST: Dr. Sherrill D. Wilson, Director, African
Burial Grounds Office of Public Education and
Interpretation
Pearson et al, "Theater Archeology," TDR 38, 4
(T144), Winter 1994, 133-161.
Nora, Pierre." Between Memory and History," Representations
26 (Spring 1989): 7-25.
African Burial Ground. Please read the materials
provided on the African Burial Ground website.
Cheryl La Roche and Michael Blakey, Seizing Intellectual
Power: The Dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground.
Historical Archaeology, 1997, 31 (3): 84-106.
Recommended (and in the PS Archive)
Gilroy, Paul. "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of
Modernity," in The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double
Consciousness, pp. 3-40.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "The Invention of Africa," In My
Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, pp.
3-27.
Bruner, Edward M. "Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of
Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora," American
Anthropologist 98, 2 (1996):290-304.
Pearson, Michael and Michael Shanks, "Performing a Visit:
Archeologists of the Contemporary Past," Performance
Research (special issue: On Tourism) 2,2 (summer 1997):41-53.
This issue can be purchased at the NYU Book Center. Those
who have read "Theater Archeology" previously, should read
this instead.
Henderson and Kaeppler, Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of
Representation at the Smithsonian, 1997.
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11. 3/31 Memory/History II: Holocaust Memorials
GUESTS: Dr. Ilana Abramovich, Education
Department, Museum of Jewish Heritage
Felman, Shoshana and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises
of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and
History (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 204-283.
Young, James. The Texture of Memory (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1993), pp. 1-15, 323-349.
Saidel, Rochelle G. Never Too Late to Remember:
The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust
Museum (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1996), pp. 1-
13, 160-197, 214-246.
RECOMMENDED
Patraka, Vivian M. "Spectacles of Suffering:
Performing Presence, Absence, and Historical
Memory at U.S. Holocaust Museums," in Performance
and Cultural Politics, ed. Elin Diamond (New York:
Routledge, 1996), pp. 89-107.
Linenthal, Edward T. Preserving Memory: The
Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (New
York: Viking, 1995).
Weinberg, Jeshajahu and Rina Elieli. The Holocaust
Museum in Washington (New York: Rizzolo, 1995).
Holocaust Representations Unmasked, Special Issue
of Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review 68
(winter 1998).
Kugelmass, Jack. "The Rites of the Tribe: The
Meaning of Poland for American Jewish Tourists,"
YIVO Annual 21 (1993):395-453.
Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Filling the Jewish Space in
Europe. International Perspectives 35 (New York:
American Jewish Committee, 1996).
Ruedenberg-Wright, Lucia. "Forty Years of Rehearsal: Civic
Ceremony as a Field for Memory and Social Identity" (on
the history of Holocaust commemoration in New York City).
Soloveitchik, Haym. "Rupture and Reconstruction:
The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy,"
Tradition 28, 4 (1994):64-131.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Sounds of Sensibility:
Reflections on the Klezmer Revival," Judaism
47 (1), issue no. 185 (1998):49-78.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Museum of Tolerance/Beth Hashoah (Los Angeles)
Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)
The Nizkor Project
Holocaust Links
A Survivor's Home Page
Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
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12. 4/7 Memory/History III: Lower East Side
Site visits: Meet at 10 am, at 12-16 Eldridge St
at the Eldridge Street Synagogue. We will go on
to The Tenement Museum, 90 Orchard St., corner
Broome. Admission (3 apartments, with tours) is
$8.00. Please bring exact change.
Katriel, Tamar. Performing the Past: A Study of
Israeli Settlement Museums (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates Publisher, 1997).
Tenement Museum
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Ellis Island"
Federal Writers Project, "Lower East Side," WPA
Guide to New York City (New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Reprint of 1939 edition), 108-124.
Recommended
Limmer, Ruth. Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East
Side: A Walking Guide (in collaboration with NYC's
Lower East Side Tenement Museum) (New York: New
York University Press, 1997).
Ivy, Marilyn. Discourse of the Vanishing:
Modernity, Phantasm, Japan (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1995).
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IV. THEMED ATTRACTIONS
13. 4/14 Nature
Davis, Susan. Spectacular Nature: Corporate
Culture and the Sea World Experience (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1997).
Seaworld (San Diego)
Recommended
Sorkin, Michael, ed. Variations on a Theme Park:
The American City and the End of Public Space (New
York: Noonday Press, 1992).
Smoodin, Eric, ed. Disney Discourse: Producing The
Magic Kingdom (New York: Routledge, 1994).
Project on Disney, Inside the Mouse: Work and Play
at Disney World (Durham: Duke University Press,
1996).
Disneyland
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14. 4/21 Art
Site visit: Salon de Fleurus, 41 Spring Street.
Recommended
Schwartz, Hillel. The Culture of the Copy:
Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (New
York: Zone Books, 1996).
4/23 (Thur): Final paper due.
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15. 4/26 SUNDAY
4/28 Class cancelled