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Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place

Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place

Oleg E. Afanasiev, Alexandra V. Afanasieva
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781522527503|ISBN10: 1522527508|EISBN13: 9781522527510
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch002
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Afanasiev, Oleg E., and Alexandra V. Afanasieva. "Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place." Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 26-49. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch002

APA

Afanasiev, O. E. & Afanasieva, A. V. (2018). Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place. In M. Korstanje & B. George (Eds.), Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism (pp. 26-49). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch002

Chicago

Afanasiev, Oleg E., and Alexandra V. Afanasieva. "Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place." In Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, 26-49. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch002

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Abstract

The present chapter focuses on the role of museums as producer of dark myths, which means the cultural background that leads visitors to consume “other´s death”. Anthropologically speaking, museums are symbolic instrument that helps understanding traumatic events. For this reason, it is important to deepen the connection between tourism consumption and disasters. Over centuries, positivism trivialized mythology as a fictional story, or rumors proper of primitive cultures; rather, not only myths play a leading role in configuring culture, but also the borders between life and death. Here we propose an alternative fresh methodology to study dark tourism issues in the decades to come.

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