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Michael A. Di Giovine Interview on “Passing Time with Dr. Rob,” with Chester County Historical Society President Rob Lukens, WCHE 1520 a.m., October 29, 2014
No full textIn this wide-ranging radio interview with Rob Lukens, Director of the Chester County Historical Society, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Michael A. Di Giovine discusses how he connects his research on food, cultural heritage, tourism and museums into his teaching at West Chester University. They discuss Di Giovine’s monograph, The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism (2009) and his volume Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (2014), as well as Di Giovine’s extensive experience in audience research for museums and other non-profit organizations in the “culture sector”
A Conversation with Carsten Wergin, Author of Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place
No full textIn this edition of Lexington Books\u27 Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society Author Conversation webinar, series editor Michael A. Di Giovine talks to Carsten Wergin about his book, Tourism, Indigeneity and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia\u27s Last Frontier. A vivid, sophisticated ethnography, Wergin\u27s book analyzes what is one of the largest environmental protest actions in Australian history: the Walmadany/James Price Point conflict. The discussion ranges from Indigenous Heritage and Indigenous Tourism, to the ways in which heritage preservation and resource extraction are both opposed to each other, but, in many ways, coexist in a transecological sense. They discuss the Lurujarri Heritage Trail and the ways in which Indigenous culture and Indigenous learning is cultivated among foreign and domestic tourists, and how such indigenous tourism initiatives can work to destabilize outside forces, as well as create avenues for collaboration and mutual understanding. A lively Q and A with critical heritage studies students from West Chester University addresses ethnographic methods and ethics, the future of these environmental protests, and the relevance of transecological and indigenous conceptions of heritage on current-day conflicts in which various groups around the world produce differing heritage claims on contested land
A Conversation with Deana Weibel, Author of A Sacred Vertigo
No full textIn this installment of Lexington Books\u27 Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society Author Conversation Series, series editor Michael A. Di Giovine talks with Dr. Deana Weibel, author of A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France. The wide-ranging discussion focuses on the politics of religious tourism development, adaptive reuse over time, different expectations and inclinations of pilgrims, tourists and religious creatives , contestation and negotiation among site managers, and the very energy that sacred geography and spatiality may have - all of which may produce a sense of vertigo at this important mountain-hugging shrine
Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Maps, Migration and Darkness (West Chester University)
No full textPhiladelphia-based artist AV Rankin discusses her work in a public lecture at West Chester University. Titled, Maps, Migration and Darkness: Rewilding our Visual Language as a Method of Decolonization, the talk challenges us to think about how we present and map out our surroundings. Co-sponsored by WCU\u27s Anthropology Club, Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology, Institute on Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art + Design. This is held in conjunction with the WCU Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology\u27s exhibition, Beyond the Bell: Philadelphia\u27s Global Heritage . For more information see www.wcupa.edu/museum and www.avrankin.com
Christi Belcourt: Indigenous Environmental Activism through Art
No full textIn this special lecture, renowned artist and activist Christi Belcourt discusses environmental activism and art for West Chester University students and faculty. Moderated by Michael A. Di Giovine, Director of the WCU Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Institute, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Anthropology Club, Department of Art + Design and the Office of Sustainability
A Conversation with Xianghong Feng, Author of Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land
No full textIn this installment of Lexington Books\u27 Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society Author Conversations, series editor Michael A. Di Giovine talks to anthropologist Xianghong Feng, author of the book, Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural China. With rich ethnographic detail, Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism development, power and inequality in the southern interior of China. Capital-intensive, elite-driven tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao. Although tourism is often touted as able to empower women, lower classes, and minorities, Feng shows that often it reinforces the very power structures that it attempts to equalize
Jaida Grey Eagle, Indigenous Photography
No full textIn this special lecture, Ogala Lakota artist, filmmaker, and photojournalist Jaida Grey Eagle discusses indigenous photography, the representation of people of color in photojouranlism, and decolonizing the museum space West Chester University students and faculty. Moderated by Michael A. Di Giovine, Director of the WCU Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Race and Ethnic Studies, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Anthropology Club, Department of Art + Design and the Office of Sustainability
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
A Conversation with A. Lynn Bolles, Author of Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica
No full textIn this installment of Lexington Books\u27 Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society Author Conversation Series, editor Michael A. Di Giovine talks with A. Lynn Bolles, Professor Emerita in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland about her newest book, Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica. Dr. Bolles is the past president of the Caribbean Studies Association, the Association for Feminist Anthropology, and the Society for the Anthropology of North America. She is the recipient of both the 2013 Legacy Award from the Association of Black Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association, which awarded her its 2021 Gender Equity Award
Photograph featuring Michael McKeown and Newell L. Chester
No full textThis photograph features Michael McKeown and Newell L. Chester. This photograph was likely taken at the 2001 Abraham Lincoln Forum.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-photographs/2060/thumbnail.jp
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