Visitor Encounters with the Great Barrier Reef explores how visitor encounters have shaped the history and heritage of the reef. Moving beyond the visual aesthetic significance, the book highlights the importance of multi-sensual experiences in understanding the region as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Visitor Encounters with the Great Barrier Reef explores how visitor encounters have shaped the history and heritage of the reef. Moving beyond the visual aesthetic significance, the book highlights the importance of multi-sensual experiences in understanding the region as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Celmara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Heritage and Culture and Associate Professor in Anthropology and Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests encompass human relationships with the environment, including senses of place; social value and community heritage; and the intersections between heritage and tourism.
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Chapter 1 Introduction World Heritage Values New directions in heritage The cultural bias and potential of aesthetic value Aesthetics as Senses and Place Visitor experience References PART I: VISITOR EXPERIENCES OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 2 Orientation, wayfinding and cartographic knowledge of the Reef * Disorientation and Danger Controlling Danger: orientation and mapping Science, tourism and navigation Visitor Traditions of Orientation In the Footsteps of the Navigators Disorientation Orientation: Continuity and Change References * Chapter 3 Visitors' Sensuous Experiences at the Reef Seeing the Reef Feeling the Reef Fossicking Heat Sea Water Insects Reef Sounds Sighing She-Oaks Birds Whistling Sand Smelling the Reef Tasting the Reef Turtle Tropical flavours Merging Senses and Movement References Chapter 4 Sharing Experience of the Reef with the World Contact and Copy The Means of Capture Verbal and Written Description Collections Images Transmission of Experience The Panoramic View The Underwater World Representing a Multi-Sensuous Reef References PART II - CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 5 Reef Islands as Signifiers of Paradise Australian Landscapes of the Great Barrier Reef Australian Bush as the Everyday In Pursuit of Paradise The Coconut Palm as Signifier of Paradise Found The Coconut Palm and Local Knowledge A Tourist Gaze for Australian Visitors References Chapter 6 Controlling the Underwater Reef through Cultivation of Coral Gardens Cartographic Mimesis: Control Over the Other Out of Control: A Return to Otherness Seeking Similitude: Coral Gardens Aquariums as controlled gardens Immersion and loss of control Coral gardens as imagery References Chapter 7 The Great Barrier Reef as Hyperreality and World Heritage The Simulacra of a Single Natural Reef Hyper-Reality at ReefWorld Loss of Place Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Listing Postscript References Index
Chapter 1 Introduction World Heritage Values New directions in heritage The cultural bias and potential of aesthetic value Aesthetics as Senses and Place Visitor experience References PART I: VISITOR EXPERIENCES OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 2 Orientation, wayfinding and cartographic knowledge of the Reef * Disorientation and Danger Controlling Danger: orientation and mapping Science, tourism and navigation Visitor Traditions of Orientation In the Footsteps of the Navigators Disorientation Orientation: Continuity and Change References * Chapter 3 Visitors' Sensuous Experiences at the Reef Seeing the Reef Feeling the Reef Fossicking Heat Sea Water Insects Reef Sounds Sighing She-Oaks Birds Whistling Sand Smelling the Reef Tasting the Reef Turtle Tropical flavours Merging Senses and Movement References Chapter 4 Sharing Experience of the Reef with the World Contact and Copy The Means of Capture Verbal and Written Description Collections Images Transmission of Experience The Panoramic View The Underwater World Representing a Multi-Sensuous Reef References PART II - CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 5 Reef Islands as Signifiers of Paradise Australian Landscapes of the Great Barrier Reef Australian Bush as the Everyday In Pursuit of Paradise The Coconut Palm as Signifier of Paradise Found The Coconut Palm and Local Knowledge A Tourist Gaze for Australian Visitors References Chapter 6 Controlling the Underwater Reef through Cultivation of Coral Gardens Cartographic Mimesis: Control Over the Other Out of Control: A Return to Otherness Seeking Similitude: Coral Gardens Aquariums as controlled gardens Immersion and loss of control Coral gardens as imagery References Chapter 7 The Great Barrier Reef as Hyperreality and World Heritage The Simulacra of a Single Natural Reef Hyper-Reality at ReefWorld Loss of Place Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Listing Postscript References Index
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