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100 1  Wisler, Caroline Michele.
245 10 Are we there yet? |h[electronic resource] : |bconceptualizing a lighter destination for dark tourism / |cCaroline Michele Wisler.
260    Ann Arbor, MI : |bProQuest, |c2009.
502    Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
500    "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Anthropology."
500    Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.
520 3  This thesis explores the contemporary phenomenon of dark tourism, defined by Lennon and Foley as the visitation of sites associated with the themes of death, dying, and atrocity. I present an analysis of identified patterns in the use of photography and film, the manipulation of landscape, and general exhibit presentation at dark tourism sites that focuses on dark tourism concerned with the events of the Holocaust, with particular attention given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida. These patterns contribute to the overall effect of distorting the history and compartmentalizing both spatially and temporally the events presented at dark tourism sites. This effect creates an artificial distancing between the tourist and the events depicted by situating them in a past more distant than to which they actually belong, in turn fostering a perspective that the events central to dark tourism are irrelevant to contemporary society.  This artificial distancing, in conjunction with prevalent attitudes toward the tourist community, impacts the potential and purpose of dark tourism sites. Drawing on Nietzsche and Todorov, I conclude that the incorporation of alternative approaches to the presentation and use of history, integrated with the educational methodology presented by Freire and Reardon, may assist in developing the positive potential of dark tourism sites as well as transforming the negative reputation with which dark tourism sites are currently associated.
700 1  Wiener, Margaret J. |4ths
773 1   |tUNC electronic theses and dissertations collection
856 40  |uhttp://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2950 |3Full text available via the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries
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