Penetrating Types: Conflating Modernist and Postmodernist Tourism on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland

• Published in: Journal of American Folklore
• Main Author: Fife, Wayne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Project MUSE 2004
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Canada; L'Anse aux Meadows; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2004.0036

This article explores the conflation of modernism and postmodernism at two tourist sites involving the representation of a Viking past in Newfoundland, Canada. The archaeologically based site at L'Anse aux Meadows is compared to the purpose-built tourist site of Norstead, and both are analysed...