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.

Culture and Value: An Introduction


Section I


Introduction: 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 Tourism


3. 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 II


Introduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes


5. 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 Century





Section III


Introduction: 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 Negotiation


12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture"


Index