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Postmodernism and the heritage experience

Stuart Hannabuss (Stuart Hannabuss is Lecturer in Management, School of Information and Media, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.)

Library Management

ISSN: 0143-5124

Article publication date: 1 August 1999

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Abstract

The complexity and ambivalence of cultural experience is a well‐known aspect of consumerism and late capitalism. Partly a search for the authentic and partly the consumption of the popular, such experience presents us with a set of challenges ‐‐ about what is real and what is image, what is itself and what is irony, what is historically so and what has been detached from historical context. Experience is increasingly a commodity provided by tourism and the heritage industry. Heritage is an area where postmodernism offers unique relevant perspectives. The article considers these issues as they arise in teaching heritage courses in higher education.

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Hannabuss, S. (1999), "Postmodernism and the heritage experience", Library Management, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 295-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435129910276280

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MCB UP Ltd

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