Overview
- Includes video features of folk music and dance heritage in multiple locations
- Presents a pluralistic approach of Latin American heritage
- Celebrates cultural traditions from an international perspective
Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Festivities, Heritage and Tourism
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Cultural Landscape and Tourism
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Rail Heritage and Museums
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Archaeological Heritage and Tourism
Keywords
- Folk Music and Dance Heritage
- Collaboration in Cultural Heritage
- Railway Heritage and Museums
- Archaeological Heritage and Tourism
- Cultural Landscape and Tourism
- Atlantic Ocean Dialogues
- Heritage Conservation
- Intangible Heritage
- Samba
- Brazil
- Pampas Region
- Carnival
- Carnival and Religious Celebrations
- Folia de Reis
- UNESCO
- Museulisation
- Urban Memory
- Antarctic Archeology
- Heritage Trafficking
- Notting Hill Carnival
About this book
This unique book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, pursuing global and specific approaches, and combining different views, perceptions and senses, including video fragments.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Jorge Rabassa obtained his Licenciado and Doctor degrees in Geology at the School of Natural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. He is a researcher with CONICET, the National Research Council of Argentina, at CADIC, Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, since 1986. He is presently the director of CADIC, the southernmost, multidisciplinary research center of the World with permanent scientific staff. He is also adjunct Full Professor of Geology at the Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego. He has been a lecturer in several Argentine universities and also the President of Comahue University, one of the Argentine Patagonian universities. He is a member of the Argentine Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Catalonian Academy of Sciences. He has been a Visiting Professor in several universities of the United States and Canada, as well as in various Western Europe countries, the Republic of SouthAfrica and China. His main research interests are geomorphology, ancient landscapes, long-term landscape evolution, and glacial and Quaternary studies. He has published over 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and edited 17 books and scientific journal special volumes.
He has directed 15 doctoral dissertations and many graduation theses and is a member of the editorial board of several international journals. Until 2018 he was President of the Asociación Argentina de Geomorfología y Cuaternario. He is presently one of the Series Editors of the Springer Briefs in Earth System Sciences series and The Latin American Studies Book Series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Festivals and Heritage in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Culture, Identity and Tourism
Editors: Fabiana Lopes da Cunha, Jorge Rabassa
Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67985-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67984-2Published: 17 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67987-3Published: 17 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67985-9Published: 16 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-3421
Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Geography, general, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Sociology, general, Tourism Management