• DOI:10.1177/146879702761936653
Corpus ID: 55744323

Commodification, culture and tourism

@article{Shepherd2002CommodificationCA,
  title={Commodification, culture and tourism},
  author={R. J. Shepherd},
  journal={Tourist Studies},
  year={2002},
  volume={2},
  pages={183 - 201}
}

• R. J. Shepherd
• Published 2002
• Sociology
• Tourist Studies

This article revisits the question of tourism’s role in the commodification of culture. I argue that an acceptance of a cause and effect relationship between tourism and cultural commodification requires an acceptance of a problematic notion of ‘authenticity’. This is because the belief that tourism causes cultural commodification is based on a largely unexamined reliance on Marx’s labor theory of value, source of what Barbara Herrnstein Smith has referred to as a ‘double discourse of value… Expand

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