Tourism and Archaeology

Cameron Walker is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, and a member of World Heritage Tourism Research Network based at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also serves as California Network Coordinator for the Society for American Archaeology. Her interest in the intersection between archaeology, anthropology and tourism are detailed in her book Heritage or Heresy: Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera (Univ. of Alabama Press 2009). Neil Carr is Associate Professor in the Tourism Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has held positions at the University of Queensland, Australia, and University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in a variety of academic journals and edited books, is the editor of the new e-journal Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and South America , and sits on the editorial boards of four academic journals.

• I: Concepts; 1: Tourism and Archaeology: An Introduction; 2: Archaeology Meccas of Tourism: Exploration, Protection, and Exploitation; 3: Integrating Education and Entertainment in Archaeological Tourism: Complementary Concepts or Opposite Ends of the Spectrum?; 4: Cultural Sensitivity and Embeddedness; II: Case Studies; 5: The Management and Marketing of Archaeological Sites: The Case of Hadrian's Wall; 6: Vindolanda; 7: Casa Malpais: Development of an Archaeological Park in Rural Arizona; 8: Visitors at the Trench Edge: Outreach and Archaeology at Historic Dilston, Northumberland, UK; 9: Archaeology, Tourism, and Other “Marriages of Convenience:” Examples from Western Canada; 10: Saving Punalu‘u: Ka‘? as a Cultural K?puka; 11: Framing the Mogao Caves in the Encounters between Tourists and Site Interpreters; 12: Archaeology and Tourism: Lessons from the Zimbabwean Experience; 13: Meet the Flintstones: Contestable Cultural Heritage of the Pica-Piedras in a Phurépecha Community in Mexico; 14: Conclusion: Manifesting Sustainable Meeting Grounds

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