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A History of Archaeological Tourism

Pursuing leisure and knowledge from the eighteenth century to World War II

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Authors:
  1. Margarita Díaz-Andreu

    1. ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Analyzes the relationship of archaeology and tourism from a diachronic perspective
  • Examines how globalization and global capitalism have increasingly influenced archaeological tourism and the professions associated with archaeology
  • Discusses the tensions between community heritage versus universal heritage

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology (BRIEFSARCHAE)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeological Heritage Management (BRIEFSARCHHERIT)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 1-11

  3. From Travel to Tourism

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 13-30

  4. The Early Years of Archaeological Tourism: From 1800 to 1870

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 31-55

  5. Promoting the National Past. Archaeology and Tourism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 57-83

  6. Archaeological Tourism From the Great War to the End of World War II

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 85-115

  7. Conclusions: Combining Leisure and Tourism From the Eighteenth Century to World War II

    • Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    Pages 117-122
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About this book

This book examines the relationship between archaeological tourism and professional archaeology. To do so, it explores the connection – most visibly through nationalism and global capitalism - from its origins in the early modern period to World War II. How separate is the development of archaeological tourism from that of the formation of archaeology as a discipline? And do the fields operate in two different worlds? Scholarly discussions have largely treated them as distinct fields with no connection, while histories of archaeology, in particular, have focused on aspects such as the history of archaeological discoveries, archaeological thought and, more recently, the political relationship between archaeology and nationalism and other ideologies. Largely missing from all these accounts has been an examination of how archaeology has been incorporated into society, for example through something that all humans enjoy – leisure – in the form of archaeological tourism. Moreover, just as histories of archaeology have largely ignored the connection between archaeology and tourism, so too has tourism in the reverse direction. Recent studies on tourism have centered on topics such as economy (sustainable and recession tourism) and new types of tourism (including ecotourism and medical tourism).

Reviews

“Sometimes we do not realise how much we need a book, until we read it. This was certainly the case for this reviewer when reading Margarita Díaz-Andreu’s History of Archaeological Tourism. Before reading it, I had not imagined such a book was possible, let alone necessary. By the time I was half-way through, I wondered how we had managed without it till now.” (Trabajos de Prehistoria, Vol. 77 (2), 2020)

“It is a wide-ranging investigation into archaeology, travel, tourism, and leisure. It is well-researched and useful for a number of audiences. … A History of Archaeological Tourism is interesting to read, for scholars in tourism studies and the history of archaeology.” (Kathleen Sheppard, Histories of Archaeology Research Network, September 3, 2020)

Authors and Affiliations

  • ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Margarita Díaz-Andreu

About the author

Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an ICREA Research Professor based at the University of Barcelona (UB). She is the PI of the Group of Public Archaeology and Heritage (www.gapp.cat) at her university and has led several projects as PI such as the Spanish team of the EU-funded project ‘Heritage Values Network’ project. Her areas of research are the history of archaeological heritage, archaeological tourism, migration and the politics of heritage. She is interested in public archaeology and community heritage from different perspectives: cultural tourism, world heritage, citizen participation, immigration and the conservation of cultural goods. She and her team are currently prioritizing projects related to heritage from a social perspective, addressing the problems of today’s society. Her research group has as one of its priorities the development of new methodologies in social heritage, including some in-depth research on focus groups. She is also encouraging participative projects that give voice to society and serve as a bridge between society, academia and the institutions dealing with the management of archaeological heritage. The author of A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology (OUP, 2007), her first thoughts on the history of archaeological tourism were written in 2004. Since then she has published a special issue on archaeological tourism in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology (2013) and several articles on this topic.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A History of Archaeological Tourism

  • Book Subtitle: Pursuing leisure and knowledge from the eighteenth century to World War II

  • Authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32077-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32075-1Published: 25 February 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32077-5Published: 24 February 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1861-6623

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-4910

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 122

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology

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