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https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2017.40.06
Insularity and the Political Economy of Tourism. An Anthropological Analysis of Zlarin Island and the Trenta Valley
Peter Simonič
; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
This paper combines environmental, communitarian and political-economic forces to explain cultural heritage and tourism on Zlarin Island (Croatia, Dalmatia) and in the Trenta Valley (Slovenia, Alps). The two selected places belong to different geo-cultural areas and academic traditions, but also share many common features including late colonisation, intensive agriculture and overpopulation, population decline in the twentieth century, change in ownership structure, early origins of tourism and use of their insularity as an advantage in their tourism strategies. A comparative analysis offers a chance to rethink the ethnological approach to communities and cultures as insulated entities.
Keywords
Adriatic; Alps; agriculture; environment; demography; industrialisation; stress; cultural heritage; Zlarin; Trenta
Hrčak ID:
191240
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2017.
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