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Heritage commodification, the Glossary

Index Heritage commodification

Heritage commodification is the process by which cultural themes and expressions come to be evaluated primarily in terms of their exchange value, specifically within the context of cultural tourism.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: African Americans, Belize, Colonialism, Ecotourism, Environmental degradation, Exchange value, Financial capital, Globalization, Hakuna Matata (song), Imperialism, John Urry (sociologist), Kumbaya, Maasai people, Maya peoples, Out of Africa (film), Reggae.

  2. Economic anthropology
  3. Tourism

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Exchange value

In political economy and especially Marxian economics, exchange value (Tauschwert) refers to one of the four major attributes of a commodity, i.e., an item or service produced for, and sold on the market, the other three attributes being use value, economic value, and price.

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Hakuna Matata (song)

"Hakuna Matata" is a song from Disney's 1994 animated feature film The Lion King.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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John Urry (sociologist)

John Richard Urry (1 June 1946, London – 18 March 2016, Lancaster) was a British sociologist who served as a professor at Lancaster University.

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Kumbaya

"Kum ba yah" ("Come by here") is an African American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans.

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Maasai people

The Maasai (Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region.

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Maya peoples

The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

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Out of Africa (film)

Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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See also

Economic anthropology

Tourism

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_commodification

Also known as Kichwa Tembo, Kichwa-Tembo.