In our second year Cultural Politics on Tour module, students are introduced to the fundamental academic skills necessary to succeed in university and post-university employment. As part of the course, students are asked to write an essay on the topic of hair from a social and biological anthropological perspective. This week we are featuring an essay by Read More…
Category: tourism
CRESIDA webinar by Magdalena Banaszkiewicz on tourism in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
On 21 October 2020, Dr Magdalena Banaszkiewicz from Jagellonian University in Krakow presented a webinar in our CRESIDA seminar series titled ‘Between interpretation and leadership: The Chernobyl Exclusion zone in guides narrative’. The webinar is now available to view below. Abstract This webinar presents the problem of interpretation of the heritage of the Chernobyl Exclusion Read More…
The trickster’s burden: carpet sellers and the manufacture of authenticity in the Istanbul Grand Bazaar
This week in the CRESIDA seminar series, our speaker is Patricia Scalco from the University of Helsinki, who is sharing her research with carpet sellers in the Istanbul Grand Bazaar. Come and join us on Thursday, March 21st at 4.15pm in Room G070 at Parkstead House to learn more. Abstract The oldest and largest covered market in Read More…
Death by proxy: Breaking new ground with leisure and death and The Rolling Stones
By Jonathan Skinner © University Press of Colorado blog – reproduced with permission. My new volume with Adam Kaul, Leisure and Death, is a mortality tour led predominantly by anthropologists. We give examples from around the world of tourists and travellers, academics, leisure seekers, and lovers and their deliberate and/or accidental relationships with death. These Read More…
