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Author: Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Volume: 4
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.385kg
ISBN: 9781598745443
ISBN 10: 1598745441
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 01 February 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
.. .the book leads us to consider the fascinating question of why and how we are driven to construct and visit sites that memorialize mass death and horrific tragedy, and what uniquely human needs are fulfilled when we do so. Museum Magazine As an anthropologist, tourist, and artist, Sather-Wagstaff investigates the traumatic events of 9/11 as a site of contested meaning. Her exercise in visual ethnography examines the various social practices of tourists in their engagement with the tangible and intangible essence of 'heritage that hurts.' This innovative study adds substantively to the evolving role of the 9/11 events and, in doing so, embarks on new methodological and theoretical approaches. Appropriately illustrated, referenced, and indexed. Summing Up Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. CHOICE . ..the book leads us to consider the fascinating question of why and how we are driven to construct and visit sites that memorialize mass death and horrific tragedy, and what uniquely human needs are fulfilled when we do so. --Museum Magazine As an anthropologist, tourist, and artist, Sather-Wagstaff investigates the traumatic events of 9/11 as a site of contested meaning. Her exercise in visual ethnography examines the various social practices of tourists in their engagement with the tangible and intangible essence of 'heritage that hurts.' This innovative study adds substantively to the evolving role of the 9/11 events and, in doing so, embarks on new methodological and theoretical approaches. Appropriately illustrated, referenced, and indexed. Summing Up Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. --CHOICE
<p> As an anthropologist, tourist, and artist, Sather-Wagstaff investigates the traumatic events of 9/11 as a site of contested meaning. Her exercise in visual ethnography examines the various social practices of tourists in their engagement with the tangible and intangible essence of 'heritage that hurts.' This innovative study adds substantively to the evolving role of the 9/11 events and, in doing so, embarks on new methodological and theoretical approaches. Appropriately illustrated, referenced, and indexed. Summing Up Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. -CHOICE
Author Information
Joy Sather-Wagstaff is an assistant professor of anthropology at North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on tourists' experiences at memorial museums and commemorative landscapes, material, visual and intangible culture, memory, community history collection, vernacular photography, cultures of collecting, and disasters. Her publications include: Beyond Content: Thematic, Discourse-centred Qualitative Methods for Analysing Visual Data (forthcoming in 2010, in An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism); Folk Epigraphy as Intangible Heritage at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City and Beyond (2009, in Intangible Heritage Embodied); Picturing Experience: A Tourist-centred Perspective on Commemorative Historical Sites. (2008, Tourist Studies: An International Journal).
