Culture and Value

Regina F. Bendix is Professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include In Search of Authenticity and Backstage Domains. She is author (with Kilian Bizer and Dorothy Noyes) of Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and editor (with Aditya Eggert and Arnika Peselmann) of Heritage Regimes and the State. Together with Ulrich Marzolph she edits the journal Narrative Culture.

" Comprising a concatenation of previously published articles, as well as unpublished conference presentations, Culture and Value presents some of the most important scholarship on these topics in the field of folklore in an eminently readable form. "—Asian Ethnology"This book provides some useful historical materials for those interested in the development of both the anthropological and folkloric aspects of heritage and tourism studies."—Choice"Bendix has made a significant contribution to the study of cultural resources with Culture and Value. . . .It is a must read for scholars particularly interested in politics and the allocation of funding and personal rights over tangible and intangible culture."—Western Folklore"Folklorists need to be 'in the room' as equal partners, whether as professional experts, advocates, or mediators. To attain this, the discipline needs to address the whole issue of cultural heritage as currently understood by a set of wider and influential interests, and develop empirical and theoretical approaches which embrace opportunities within emerging contexts, while maintaining the underlying essentials. Overall, [Culture and Value] is a valuable, possibly necessary, summary of changing attitudes and disciplinary approaches over the past half-century."—William Roberts, Folklore, reviewing a previous edition or volume

• Culture and Value: An Introduction Section IIntroduction: Creating, Owning, and Narrating within Tourist Economies 1. Tourism and Cultural Display: Inventing Traditions for Whom?2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism3. Fairy Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme) 4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration Section IIIntroduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes5. Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from One Fin-de-Siècle to the Next 6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology 7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility 8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a CenturySection IIIIntroduction: Culture as Resource—Culture as Property 9. Expressive Resources. Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology 10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers' Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes 11. TK, TCE, and Co: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture" Index