Ambivalent heritage
Tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11450356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Gatling (0000-0003-1394-082X, George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-467 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central Asian Survey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-4937 • E-ISSN: 1465-3354 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02634937.2024.2339381 |
| OpenAlex | W4399971098 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres of social life: leisure, education, life-cycle rites and religiosity. Hisor’s flexibility allows it to materialize Tajikistan’s governing ideology as one local project of modernity. This article discusses three contexts in which visitors experience Hisor as heritage: tourist visits to the ‘Old Madrassa’ museum, wedding photographs in front of the fortress walls and pilgrimages to the shrine of Makhdumi Azam. The heritage practices and discourses associated with Hisor offer a complex case study of how the temporal ambivalence of heritage operates on the ground in Central Asia and suggest some of heritage’s utility as a social practice for instantiating cultural memory
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Heritage tourism · Pilgrimage · Political science · Tourism · Tourism geography · History · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Social Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
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| Highly cited | No |
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