Object Lessons: Souvenir

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 144 pages, 9 b/w illustrations

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501329418

Published:8 Mar 2018

Weight:134g

Dimensions:121 x 165 x 14 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

《實例研究：紀念品》結合了歷史，哲學和個人詢問，探索了我們如何使用旅行紀念品來構造記憶並賦予我們在世界上的地位的意義。

只要人們到遙遠的地方旅行，他們就帶紀念品回家來證明旅程。這些旅遊紀念品不僅具有商品意義，而且具有超越對象本身的個人和文化意義。旅遊作家Rolf Potts借鑑了幾千年的例子，從早期基督徒對遺物的追求，到迪斯尼禮品店的貨架上批量生產的小玩意，深入探討了一個複雜的歷史，探討了真實性，文化義務問題，市場力量，人類的痛苦和自我表現。展示的紀念品實際上是真實的：不僅是物品，還包括使人們能夠了解世界及其在世界中所處位置的個性化民間敍事形式。

Drawing on a mix of historical, philosophical, and personal inquiry, Souvenir explores how we use mementos of travel to structure our memories and give meaning to our place in the world.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples—from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop—travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.'

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel

目錄

Preface

1: Introduction: An Embarrassment of Eiffel Towers

2: Souvenirs in the Age of Pilgrimage

3: Souvenirs in the Age of Enlightenment

Interlude: Museums of the Personal

4: Souvenirs in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

5: Souvenirs and Human Suffering

6: Souvenirs and (the Complicated Notion of) Authenticity

7: Souvenirs, Memory, and the Shortness of Life

Notes

Index

作者簡介

Rolf Potts has reported from more than 60 countries for the likes of The New Yorker, The Believer, Sports Illustrated, Slate, Salon, The Atlantic, National Geographic Traveler, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. He is the author of two travel books, Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn't Go There.