Culture and Value: Tourism, Heritage, and Property

An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce (Asian Ethnology).

When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the essays gathered in Culture and Value focus on the motivations and value regimes people in part...