M A Di Giovine
Biographic Data
| ID | 14384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Di Giovine |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Giovine |
| SIGNATURE | DI GIOVINE M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Chester University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5348-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wellness for Tourists? Well…Mess for Locals: Socio-Culturally Sustainable Development of Wellness Tourism in Bali
Through the framework of sustainable development, focusing on socio-cultural sustainability, this study explores whether the rapid growth of wellness tourism in Ubud, Bali, has been experienced equitably by the local community. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observation, the findings reveal that most informants did not experience benefits from wellness tourism due to Western domination, economic leakage and isolated enclaves. Wel…
Heritage and Religion
This entry identifies the interrelationships between heritage and religion. Although often conceived as oppositional categories—one refers to the secular while the other the sacred—they are overlapping discourses and processes that are frequently used to define one another. Both identify processes of identity formation in a community. After presenting definitions of each term, whose usages both emerged in the colonial era to make sense of non‐Wes…
Afterword: Hope amid precarity in tourism
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother
Written by the Convenor of the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG) at the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Board and membership, this memorial article celebrates the life and multifaceted work of Dr. Valene Smith, the pioneering founder of the subdiscipline of the anthropology of tourism. It examines her prescience throughout her life that made her the pathbreaking scholar, teacher, traveler, and tourism practitione…
Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting inn…
The Coronavirus Crisis in a Shiite Society: Faith and the Experience of a Pilgrimage Ban at Iran's Central Shrine
The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in late 2019, brought about far-reaching changes in individual and social life. Governments adopted social distancing measures, to varying degrees, to reduce the burden of disease on the health care systems and its damage to the public health. In Iran, the shrine of Imam Reza, which is one of the most holy sites for Muslim Shiites worldwide and a popular pilgrimage destination, was closed along with three othe…
Religious and spiritual world heritage sites
The logic that a site of universalized value leads to a universalized sense of stewardship that transcends national interest adheres to the Convention text, in which “the States Parties to this Convention recognize that such heritage constitutes a world heritage for whose protection it is the duty of the international community as a whole to co-operate”. The development and publication of the World Heritage List and the World Heritage in Danger L…
Urban Anthropology: United States
This entry focuses on the origins and development of urban anthropology in the United States. It describes how urban anthropology as a unique discipline emerged in Chicago and underwent three waves that significantly affected anthropology as a whole. Using primary source citations, the entry also explains how American urban anthropologists were at the forefront of rethinking ethics, advocacy, and action anthropology. Showing the inherent holistic…
World Heritage Objectives and Outcomes
Di Giovine, Michael A.
What draws Shia Muslims to an insecure pilgrimage? The Iranian journey to Arbaeen, Iraq during the presence of Isis
In 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) forces were still in power in some regions of Iraq, almost two million Iranian pilgrims headed into Iraq and joined Arbaeen religious procession which is one of the world's biggest annual pilgrimages. Most people who embark on the journey stream toward Karbala on foot. While this takes the common form of pilgrimage-as-suffering, traveling into a region threatened to be attacked by ISIS was an extreme risk. Based…
Geographies of religion and spirituality: Pilgrimage Beyond the 'Officially' Sacred
The papers in this special issue, Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage beyond the 'Officially Sacred,' are placed in the context of a comprehensive theoretical overview of the role that the sacred plays in shaping, conducting, controlling, and contesting pilgrimage. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of travelers has demonstrated, pilgrimages need not necessarily be religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned. Ra…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
Di Giovine, Michael A.
World Heritage Objectives and Outcomes
World Heritage List: Criteria, Inscription, and Representation
T urner, V ictor (1920–83)
Victor W. Turner was a highly prolific symbolic anthropologist known for his original, multidisciplinary, and humanistic approach to anthropological theory. He remains influential in the social–scientific study of ritual, religion, pilgrimage, performance, countercultural “happenings,” sport, and contemporary social life at the margins. This entry describes his life, major influences and works, and seminal theories, such as “social dramas,” the “…
Unesco’s World Heritage Program: The Challenges and Ethics of Community Participation
1 Introduction In the nearly fifty years since the 1972 World Heritage Convention was ratified, UNESCO’s flagship preservation program has transformed itself from an initiative valorizing primarily national parks and Western-style monuments to the keystone of a robust World Heritage Program that seeks to engage different communities with a common ethical narrative of “unity in diversity.” Yet UNESCO has been critiqued for its politicized and elit…
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
The Everyday as Extraordinary: Revitalization, Religion, and the Elevation of Cucina Casareccia to Heritage Cuisine in Pietrelcina, Italy
This chapter focuses on nearly three years of ethnographic research on socio-cultural revitalization in Pietrelcina, a Southern Italian village whose inhabitants have begun to reformulate their identity based on a valorization of particular elements of their culture they imagine to have flourished during the late 1800&s;s, a period in which the saint and stigmatic, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, lived in the town. The chapter argues that heritage cuis…
Introduction Food and Foodways as Cultural Heritage
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of &s;cultural heritage&s; on local, regional, national and international scales. It deals with how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within ethnic groups, how the same food&s;s meanings change within a particu…
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (Samuels and Rico, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
Introduction: Through Other Worlds
Padre Pio for sale: Souvenirs, Relics, or Identity Markers
Based on long-term ethnographic research, this paper examines the role of material culture (objects, souvenirs, art and built structures) in the contemporary Catholic cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, particularly how it is created, contextualised, contested, and consumed by pilgrims at Pio’s shrine of San Giovanni Rotondo. The shrine’s managers have frequently been criticised for its commercialism and invasive nature. While some critiques ar…
La Vigilia Italo-Americana: "Revitalizing the Italian-American Family Through the Christmas Eve "Feast of the Seven Fishes
This article ethnographically examines the symbolic importance of seafood and its ritualized consumption in demarcating ideals of “authenticity” and “intangible heritage” in the famed Italian-American Christmas Eve feast, La Vigilia. The Vigilia is a rite of intensification intended to revitalize a community in a climate of schism and “acculturation,” and a rite of incorporation for integrating American spouses into the family's heritage. While c…
Geographies of religion and spirituality: Pilgrimage Beyond the 'Officially' Sacred
The papers in this special issue, Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage beyond the 'Officially Sacred,' are placed in the context of a comprehensive theoretical overview of the role that the sacred plays in shaping, conducting, controlling, and contesting pilgrimage. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of travelers has demonstrated, pilgrimages need not necessarily be religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned. Ra…
Padre Pio for sale: Souvenirs, Relics, or Identity Markers
Based on long-term ethnographic research, this paper examines the role of material culture (objects, souvenirs, art and built structures) in the contemporary Catholic cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, particularly how it is created, contextualised, contested, and consumed by pilgrims at Pio’s shrine of San Giovanni Rotondo. The shrine’s managers have frequently been criticised for its commercialism and invasive nature. While some critiques ar…
What draws Shia Muslims to an insecure pilgrimage? The Iranian journey to Arbaeen, Iraq during the presence of Isis
In 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) forces were still in power in some regions of Iraq, almost two million Iranian pilgrims headed into Iraq and joined Arbaeen religious procession which is one of the world's biggest annual pilgrimages. Most people who embark on the journey stream toward Karbala on foot. While this takes the common form of pilgrimage-as-suffering, traveling into a region threatened to be attacked by ISIS was an extreme risk. Based…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
Honoring Valene Smith, our prescient foremother
Written by the Convenor of the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG) at the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Board and membership, this memorial article celebrates the life and multifaceted work of Dr. Valene Smith, the pioneering founder of the subdiscipline of the anthropology of tourism. It examines her prescience throughout her life that made her the pathbreaking scholar, teacher, traveler, and tourism practitione…
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (Samuels and Rico, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
La Vigilia Italo-Americana: "Revitalizing the Italian-American Family Through the Christmas Eve "Feast of the Seven Fishes
This article ethnographically examines the symbolic importance of seafood and its ritualized consumption in demarcating ideals of “authenticity” and “intangible heritage” in the famed Italian-American Christmas Eve feast, La Vigilia. The Vigilia is a rite of intensification intended to revitalize a community in a climate of schism and “acculturation,” and a rite of incorporation for integrating American spouses into the family's heritage. While c…
Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
La Vigilia Italo-Americana: "Revitalizing the Italian-American Family Through the Christmas Eve "Feast of the Seven Fishes
This article ethnographically examines the symbolic importance of seafood and its ritualized consumption in demarcating ideals of “authenticity” and “intangible heritage” in the famed Italian-American Christmas Eve feast, La Vigilia. The Vigilia is a rite of intensification intended to revitalize a community in a climate of schism and “acculturation,” and a rite of incorporation for integrating American spouses into the family's heritage. While c…
World Heritage Tourism: Unesco's Vehicle for Peace
Keywords: commentary, tourism, cultural resource management, UNESCO, world heritage, heritage-scape, Cambodia, Angkor Archaeological Park, South-East Asia, Angkor Wat, historic preservation
Padre Pio for sale: Souvenirs, Relics, or Identity Markers
Based on long-term ethnographic research, this paper examines the role of material culture (objects, souvenirs, art and built structures) in the contemporary Catholic cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, particularly how it is created, contextualised, contested, and consumed by pilgrims at Pio’s shrine of San Giovanni Rotondo. The shrine’s managers have frequently been criticised for its commercialism and invasive nature. While some critiques ar…
Introduction: Through Other Worlds
The Everyday as Extraordinary: Revitalization, Religion, and the Elevation of Cucina Casareccia to Heritage Cuisine in Pietrelcina, Italy
This chapter focuses on nearly three years of ethnographic research on socio-cultural revitalization in Pietrelcina, a Southern Italian village whose inhabitants have begun to reformulate their identity based on a valorization of particular elements of their culture they imagine to have flourished during the late 1800&s;s, a period in which the saint and stigmatic, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, lived in the town. The chapter argues that heritage cuis…
Introduction Food and Foodways as Cultural Heritage
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of &s;cultural heritage&s; on local, regional, national and international scales. It deals with how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within ethnic groups, how the same food&s;s meanings change within a particu…
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (Samuels and Rico, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
Unesco’s World Heritage Program: The Challenges and Ethics of Community Participation
1 Introduction In the nearly fifty years since the 1972 World Heritage Convention was ratified, UNESCO’s flagship preservation program has transformed itself from an initiative valorizing primarily national parks and Western-style monuments to the keystone of a robust World Heritage Program that seeks to engage different communities with a common ethical narrative of “unity in diversity.” Yet UNESCO has been critiqued for its politicized and elit…
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
Di Giovine, Michael A.
World Heritage Objectives and Outcomes
World Heritage List: Criteria, Inscription, and Representation
T urner, V ictor (1920–83)
Victor W. Turner was a highly prolific symbolic anthropologist known for his original, multidisciplinary, and humanistic approach to anthropological theory. He remains influential in the social–scientific study of ritual, religion, pilgrimage, performance, countercultural “happenings,” sport, and contemporary social life at the margins. This entry describes his life, major influences and works, and seminal theories, such as “social dramas,” the “…
Geographies of religion and spirituality: Pilgrimage Beyond the 'Officially' Sacred
The papers in this special issue, Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage beyond the 'Officially Sacred,' are placed in the context of a comprehensive theoretical overview of the role that the sacred plays in shaping, conducting, controlling, and contesting pilgrimage. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of travelers has demonstrated, pilgrimages need not necessarily be religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned. Ra…
Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage
While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. While Macau’s success is often put down to the extent to which visitors are drawn to a secular destination with integrated resorts to engage in individualistic activities, our approach explores Chinese gambling tour…
World Heritage Objectives and Outcomes
Di Giovine, Michael A.
What draws Shia Muslims to an insecure pilgrimage? The Iranian journey to Arbaeen, Iraq during the presence of Isis
In 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) forces were still in power in some regions of Iraq, almost two million Iranian pilgrims headed into Iraq and joined Arbaeen religious procession which is one of the world's biggest annual pilgrimages. Most people who embark on the journey stream toward Karbala on foot. While this takes the common form of pilgrimage-as-suffering, traveling into a region threatened to be attacked by ISIS was an extreme risk. Based…
Religious and spiritual world heritage sites
The logic that a site of universalized value leads to a universalized sense of stewardship that transcends national interest adheres to the Convention text, in which “the States Parties to this Convention recognize that such heritage constitutes a world heritage for whose protection it is the duty of the international community as a whole to co-operate”. The development and publication of the World Heritage List and the World Heritage in Danger L…
Urban Anthropology: United States
This entry focuses on the origins and development of urban anthropology in the United States. It describes how urban anthropology as a unique discipline emerged in Chicago and underwent three waves that significantly affected anthropology as a whole. Using primary source citations, the entry also explains how American urban anthropologists were at the forefront of rethinking ethics, advocacy, and action anthropology. Showing the inherent holistic…
Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting inn…
The Coronavirus Crisis in a Shiite Society: Faith and the Experience of a Pilgrimage Ban at Iran's Central Shrine
The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in late 2019, brought about far-reaching changes in individual and social life. Governments adopted social distancing measures, to varying degrees, to reduce the burden of disease on the health care systems and its damage to the public health. In Iran, the shrine of Imam Reza, which is one of the most holy sites for Muslim Shiites worldwide and a popular pilgrimage destination, was closed along with three othe…
Heritage and Religion
This entry identifies the interrelationships between heritage and religion. Although often conceived as oppositional categories—one refers to the secular while the other the sacred—they are overlapping discourses and processes that are frequently used to define one another. Both identify processes of identity formation in a community. After presenting definitions of each term, whose usages both emerged in the colonial era to make sense of non‐Wes…
Afterword: Hope amid precarity in tourism
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