Mythic Frontiers: Remebering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Herritage Tourism (Cultural Heritage Studies): Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism

Daniel R. Maher

ISBN 10: 0813062535 / ISBN 13: 9780813062532

Published by University Press of Florida 2016-05-30, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mythic Frontiers: Remebering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Herritage Tourism (Cultural Heritage Studies): Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism
• Publisher: University Press of Florida 2016-05-30
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813062535
• ISBN 13: 9780813062532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 the privilege bestowed upon white men.

About the Author

Daniel R. Maher is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, USA.