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Alternative Tourism
Archaeological Heritage Site
Author_Anna Kallen
Ba Hat
Bac Son
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Childish Awkwardness
colonial power dynamics
Contemporary Society
Dark Tourism
ecotourism heritage site analysis
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ethnographic research
Exposition Coloniale
French Colonial Discourse
heritage management
Hintang
La Fosse
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Laos
Louis Finot
Luang Prabang
Madeleine Colani
material culture studies
Paul Doumer
Quai Branly
Quai Branly Museum
Sam Neua
Southeast Asia archaeology
Standing Stones
Stone Sites
tourism anthropology
War Heritage Site
Xieng Khouang
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781629580982
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated, contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism from the 1930s until today and what it shows about the power dynamics of heritage and ecotourism. The volume-explores how the discourses of colonialism and ecotourism affect tourists, archaeologists, heritage managers, and the local community;-is written as a set of overlapping creative essays, each giving an overlapping perspective on Hintang;-is a multidisciplinary research project based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews with community members, biography, material culture studies, and text analysis.
Anna Kallen is currently working on a research project about the Swedish archaeologist Olov R.T. Janse, and is Research Officer for a Faculty Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is author of And Through Flows the River: Archaeology and the Pasts of Lao Pako and Lao Pako: A Late Prehistoric Site on the Nam Ngum River in Laos . Trained in archaeology, Kallen's research extends to heritage studies, anthropology, and history of ideas. Her long-term research has been in mainland Southeast Asia (Laos in particular) and in postcolonial theory. The inspiration from postcolonial theory gives her research a particular focus on the production and consumption of archaeological heritage (as sites, texts, and imagery) in relation to hegemonic structures of inequality in contemporary societies.
