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Mythic Frontiers: Remebering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Herritage Tourism
Daniel R. Maher
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Hardback. This is a study of the creation of Fort Smith, Arkansas, an imagined Wild West town for tourists complete with Native Americans, nineteenth-century hangings, prostitutes, and bootleggers. Series: Cultural Heritage Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see.
In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes ... Read more
The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see.
In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cultural Heritage Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813062532
SKU
V9780813062532
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About Daniel R. Maher
Daniel R. Maher is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, USA.
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