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The Commodification of Culture

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The Commodification of Culture

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The Commodification of Culture book

The Commodification of Culture

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The Commodification of Culture book

ByJacek Tittenbrun
BookConcepts of Capital

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
Imprint Routledge
Pages 2
eBook ISBN 9781315080727

ABSTRACT

The public property also encompasses cultural objects such as museums or sites of historical interest, which are exposed to enclosure, taking a form of commodification, or a conversion into objects to be sold to the public by the tourism industry. This practice takes a specific form in the case of the so-called acculturation of pre-capitalist peoples' customs and rituals. A case in point is provided by "Inuit sell their hunters' vouchers to vacationing gunslingers eager to blow walruses away at point-blank range". The colonial authority, the independent nation of Fiji, and the tourism industry have been progressively making a branded commodity out of the Naivilaqata's mythical gift, successfully publicizing its uniqueness. The Comaroffs conceive of this phenomenon as a product of two complementary processes: the incorporation of identity and the commodification of culture. The commentator apparently is incapable of differentiating between common and private property, as a consequence of which her notion of capital must be flawed as well.

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