The burden of heritage: claiming a place for a West Indian culture
The burden of heritage: claiming a place for a West Indian culture
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遗产的负担：为西印度文化争取一席之地
DOI：
10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.370
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
K. Olwig
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作者：
K. Olwig
人类学家和他们研究的对象对过去的文化建构越来越感兴趣。许多对过去的最有力和最明显的表达都是由所谓的遗产运动推动的，遗产运动正在成为一个世界性的关注，它是国家意识形态、种族政治和旅游业利益的不安结合的产物。我探讨了遗产的文化政治与加勒比海圣约翰岛，美属维尔京群岛的人民在时间和空间中为自己创造了一个地方的不同方式。对口述传统在构建不同版本的过去中所起作用的探索表明，岛民自己对遗产传播者（包括人类学家）的期望感到相当矛盾。我提出的问题既有关于加勒比地区历史认同的构建，也有关于人类学家在创造遗产方面的有意或无意作用的问题。
The cultural construction of the past is of increasing interest to anthropologists, as well as to the people they study. Many of the most forceful and visible expressions of the past are fueled by the so-called heritage movement, which is becoming a worldwide concern, born of an uneasy combination of national ideology, ethnic politics, and tourist industry interests. I explore the cultural politics of heritage in relation to the different ways in which the people of the Caribbean island of St. John, the U.S. Virgin Islands, have made a place for themselves in time and space. An exploration of the role of oral tradition in constructing different versions of the past shows that the islanders themselves feel considerable ambivalence toward the expectations of the promulgators of heritage, including anthropologists. I raise questions both about the construction of historical identity in the Caribbean and, more generally, about the witting or unwitting role of anthropologists in the creation of heritage.