Kelli Ann Costa

Brokered Image

Material Culture and Identity in the Stubaital

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the 'brokered image,' a constructed identity influenced by tourism and the global economy, expressed through a variety of displays and performances in rural Tyrol. This image of old world simplicity complicates interactions between and among hosts and guests as evidenced in this small mountain village in Austria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9780761820116
• ISBN-10: 0761820116
• Artikelnr.: 53212448

Autorenporträt

Kelli Ann Costa

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Dedication
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 The Brokered Image: An Introduction
Chapter 4 Theories of Identity in Anthropological Discourse
Chapter 5 Metaphor, Identity and the Brokered Image
Chapter 6 Tethered Memories: The Image of Die Bauern in Two Tyrolean
Museums
Chapter 7 Theories of Material Culture in Museum Settings
Chapter 8 Redefining Public and Private Space: Tourist Season in Rural
Tyrol
Chapter 9 Contrasting Identities: Interior and Exterior Expressions of
"Tyrolness"
Chapter 10 Conclusion: Image Brokering and the Postmodern Peasant
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index