The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism

Description

This book explores how the mere designation of World Heritage sites can achieve U.N.E.S.C.O.'s goal of creating lasting worldwide peace. Drawing on ethnography, policy analysis, and a sophisticated fusion of anthropological theories, Di Giovine convincingly reveals the existence of a global heritage-scape and provides a detailed yet expansive look at the politics and processes, histories and structures, and the rituals and symbolisms of the interrelated phenomena of tourism, historic preservation, and U.N.E.S.C.O.'s World Heritage Convention.