PERFORMING CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

Authors
Citation
C. Tilley, PERFORMING CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, Critique of anthropology, 17(1), 1997, pp. 67-89
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0308275X
Volume
17
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
67 - 89
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-275X(1997)17:1<67:PCITGV>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
This paper discusses the revival and performance of cultural tradition s and 'ethnic lives' for a tourist audience in the third and fourth wo rlds using the example of a newly emergent development on Wala island, Malekula, Vanuatu. It examines issues of the commodification and obje ctification of culture, in the light of debates about the 'invention o f tradition', in relation to a global tourist industry. A major concer n is with the politics and values involved in an active appropriation on the part of indigenous populations of their past and how this might relate to a notion of authenticity in the context of a Melanesian cul ture.