Author: Hodges, Matt

Source: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Volume 15, Number 1, January 2009 , pp. 76-99(24)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This article presents an ethnographic case study of the relationship between the development of heritage tourism, and the role of material culture in memory practices in rural Southern France. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in the village of Monadieres, it provides an analysis of how artefacts in the locality's built environment have been renovated and revalued in a climate of historical change. This was the consequence of varied acts of commemoration by both independent individuals and the local council in which heritage tourism development was not necessarily the end-goal. Nevertheless, these acts were implicated in the council's 'disciplinary programme' to produce a local infrastructure for heritage tourism. The article therefore explores how this industry co-habits with and colonises modern memory practices at a micro-level. To this end it adapts analytical tools from the anthropology of time, which enable an integrative analysis of these differing 'temporalisations' of the past.

Keywords: Heritage Tourism; Anthropology of Time; Material Culture; Commemoration; France

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527250902746112

Affiliations: 1: Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK

Publication date: 2009-01-01

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