Dear List Members,
The Journal of American Folklore has recently published a special issue
that may be of interest to members of the Tourism Anthropology
discussion list:
"Constructing Folklife and Negotiating the Nation(al): The Smithsonian
Folklife Festival." Journal of American Folklore 121(479). Special
Issue Ed. Heather A. Diamond and Ricardo D. Trimillos.
This issue addresses the topic of cultural tourism and contains the
following articles:
"Imagining Home, Nation, World: Appalachia on the Mall," by Emily
Satterwhite;
"A Sense of Place: Mapping Hawai'i on the National Mall," by Heather A.
Diamond;
"Histories, Resistances, and Reconciliations in a Decolonizable Space:
The Philippine Delegation to the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival," by
Ricardo D. Trimillos;
"Performing the Predicaments of National Belonging: The Art and Politics
of the Tuareg Ensemble Tartit at the 2003 Folklife Festival," by Jay
Straker;
"Beyond Tarzan and National Geographic: The Politics and Poetics of
Presenting African Diasporic Cultures on the Mall," by Krista A.
Thompson;
"Catwalking through Culture: Notes from the 2002 Smithsonian Silk Road
Festival," by Rhea L. Combs.
The article is available through the print journal, and also in full
text at Project Muse:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_american_folklore/toc/jaf121.479
.html
The Journal of American Folklore is the journal of the American Folklore
Society. Information about JAF can be found at:
http://www.afsnet.org/publications/jaf.cfm.
With best regards,
Jesse L. Rester
Editorial Assistant
Journal of American Folklore
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