The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions, and the Law

Evans-Pritchard, Deirdre

doi:10.2307/540325

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“…They raise questions concern who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are "allowed". Studying the practices and discourses relating ethnicity and handicrafts, we consider it crucial to acknowledge both the specific historic, geographic context and claims about cultural ownership, as well as the more pragmatic understanding that no handicraft or culture has one unilineal tradition (Evans-Pritchard 1987;Cohen and Cohen 2012).…”

Section: Handicrafts Sáminess and The Duodji Labelmentioning

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Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Schilar

Keskitalo

2018

Acta Borealia

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When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are "allowed". They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic norms and boundaries, especially when global tourism enters into the equation. Taking a social constructivist perspective, our study addresses ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland. Our findings are based on fieldwork (35 interviewees) with people of diverse local backgrounds making and selling handicrafts. Methodologically, we avoid preselecting people based on ethnicity, but instead contribute to an understanding of the constitutive processes of ethnicity by looking at how ethnic talk comes into conversations about handicrafts. Our findings demonstrate that the interviewees draw an ethnic divide between "Sámi"/"non-Sámi", while other ethnic-choices move to the background. This divide can be seen to be amplified by tourism. The boundary for who can make a Sámi handicraft or use Sámi symbols remains significant, yet also fluid. The article deepens the understanding of the Sámi/non-Sámi ethnic categorization, here in relation to handicrafts. It also helps unravel the complexities between tourism, ethnicities and handicrafts more broadly. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Handicrafts Sáminess and The Duodji Labelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Schilar

Keskitalo

2018

Acta Borealia

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“…To protect an aura of authenticity and tradition, New Mexico Courts have denied Hispanics and Anglos the right to sell their handicrafts under the Portal in Santa Fe alongside of Native Americans (Evans-Pritchard 1987). As one angry, Anglo jewelry maker discovered, quality and form aside, most tourists and the state of New Mexico measure authenticity in relation to the ethnicity of the jewelry maker (Evans-Pritchard 1987). Even when the amount of labor time is the same, tourists value handmade jewelry produced by Native Americans over that produced by Anglos.…”

Section: The Ironies Of Authenticitymentioning

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Contesting Authenticity: Battles over the Representation of History in Morelos, Mexico

Martin¹

1993

Ethnohistory

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“…Although authenticity and the quest for it has played an important part in the research agenda for tourism studies (eg, Redfoot, 1984;Evans-Pritchard, 1987;Cohen, 1988;Urry, 1990;Entrikin, 1991;Hughes, 1995;Rojek and Urry, 1997;Wang, 1999;Halewood and Hannam, 2001;Aitchison, 2006;Belhassen, Caton and Stewart, 2008;Reisinger and Steiner, 2006;Steiner and Reisinger, 2006;Matheson, 2008;Andriotis, 2009), the concept has been the subject of much academic criticism and development. Wang (1999) undertook a careful analysis of the tourism research literature that claimed authenticity as a key concept, and found the concept to be carelessly applied and multiple in meaning.…”

Section: C) Authenticitymentioning

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Dreaming of drams: authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an expression of unresolved Habermasian rationalities

Spracklen

2011

Leisure Studies

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In this paper the production of whisky tourism at both independently-owned and corporately-owned distilleries in Scotland is explored by focusing on four examples (Arran, Glengoyne, Glenturret and Bruichladdich). In particular, claims of authenticity and Scottishness of Scottish whiskies through commercial materials, case studies, website-forum discussions and 'independent' writing about such whisky are analyzed. It is argued that the globalization and commodification of whisky and whisky tourism, and the communicative backlash to these trends typified by the search for authenticity, is representative of a Habermasian struggle between two irreconcilable rationalities (Habermas, 1981(Habermas, :1984(Habermas, , 1981(Habermas, :1987. This paper will demonstrate that the meaning and purpose of leisure can be understood through such explorations of the tension between the instrumentality of commodification, and the freedom of individuals to locate their own leisure lives in the lifeworld that remains.

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The Portal Case: Authenticity, Tourism, Traditions, and the Law

Cited by 40 publications

References 3 publications

Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland

Contesting Authenticity: Battles over the Representation of History in Morelos, Mexico

Dreaming of drams: authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an expression of unresolved Habermasian rationalities

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