Polar Tourism: Inuit Cultural Heritage in Tourism-Driven Documentaries
This essay takes as its starting point such a conceptual metaphor as «Polar Tourism is Cultural and Linguistic Preservation» as exempli!ed by a series of documentaries on Inuit art and Tourism in order to advance a new reading of Inuit art and naming, one which sees them as cognitive practices. Exce...
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ftunivchietiiris:oai:ricerca.unich.it:11564/834671 2024-09-15T18:05:05+00:00 Polar Tourism: Inuit Cultural Heritage in Tourism-Driven Documentaries Sasso, E. Gisella Policastro Ponce Sasso, E. 2024 STAMPA https://hdl.handle.net/11564/834671 eng eng Comares country:ESP place:Granada info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/978-84-1369-488-7 ispartofbook:Traducción, discurso turístico y cultura firstpage:177 lastpage:187 numberofpages:11 serie:INTERLINGUA https://hdl.handle.net/11564/834671 polar tourism inuit cultural heritage tourism-driven documentaries cognitive linguistics naming info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2024 ftunivchietiiris 2024-07-29T23:33:44Z This essay takes as its starting point such a conceptual metaphor as «Polar Tourism is Cultural and Linguistic Preservation» as exempli!ed by a series of documentaries on Inuit art and Tourism in order to advance a new reading of Inuit art and naming, one which sees them as cognitive practices. Exceptional wildlife sightings, stunning displays of nature, and rare experiences carefully designed to reveal remote cultures in the most authentic and engaging manner are the de!ning aspects of polar tourism as envisioned in «Crystal Serenity Northwest Passage 2017» and «Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak» (1964). I intend to track through these references and look at the issues —the role of documentaries in the spreading of Inuit names, naming strategies for inducing tourism etc.— which they raise. But my central purpose will be to re-read Inuit documentaries from a cognitive perspective. I will analyse the cognitive map of Nunavut with its place names as a country unprepared to welcome millions of tourists. Inuit documentaries acquire a dangerous valence in fostering mass tourism through the lure of Inuit art which could end in ecological disaster. Book Part eskimo* inuit Northwest passage Nunavut ARUd'A - Archivio Istituzionale della ricerca dell'università Chieti-Pescara (IRIS) |
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This essay takes as its starting point such a conceptual metaphor as «Polar Tourism is Cultural and Linguistic Preservation» as exempli!ed by a series of documentaries on Inuit art and Tourism in order to advance a new reading of Inuit art and naming, one which sees them as cognitive practices. Exceptional wildlife sightings, stunning displays of nature, and rare experiences carefully designed to reveal remote cultures in the most authentic and engaging manner are the de!ning aspects of polar tourism as envisioned in «Crystal Serenity Northwest Passage 2017» and «Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak» (1964). I intend to track through these references and look at the issues —the role of documentaries in the spreading of Inuit names, naming strategies for inducing tourism etc.— which they raise. But my central purpose will be to re-read Inuit documentaries from a cognitive perspective. I will analyse the cognitive map of Nunavut with its place names as a country unprepared to welcome millions of tourists. Inuit documentaries acquire a dangerous valence in fostering mass tourism through the lure of Inuit art which could end in ecological disaster. |
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Polar Tourism: Inuit Cultural Heritage in Tourism-Driven Documentaries |
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Polar Tourism: Inuit Cultural Heritage in Tourism-Driven Documentaries |
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