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Nov 02, 2010 IPinCH Cultural Tourism Working Group Co-chair Lena Mortensen and Project Director George Nicholas were sparked to write an article for Anthropology News, November 2010, by the opening of a “traditional First Nations Village” operated for tourists by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia in a municipal park in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
In “Riding the Tourism Train? Navigating Intellectual Property, Heritage and Community-Based Approaches to Cultural Tourism,” the authors locate the example from British Columbia in a global context, reflecting on intellectual property, “specifically the intangible elements of cultural heritage.” They consider challenges and tease out strands of possibility, in particular the affordances of community-based heritage research.
The authors discuss a nascent IPinCH-funded community-based study developed by Daniel Gendron, Taqralik Partridge and Nancy Palliser of the Avataq Cultural Institute in light of the benefits a community-based approach will bring to the Nunavimmiut of Nunavik (Northern Quebec and Northern Labrador), illustrating how this approach offers to other communities “a means to raise and address the questions prompted by intangible heritage concerns at the outset of tourism development rather than as an afterthought.”
