Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. CONTENTS 5
4. Introduction: Staging the Past 7
5. Transcultural Settings: Theme Parks and Lifespace
6. The Presence of Pastness: Themed Environments and Beyond 23
7. “The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy ... They All Make for a Good Outing”: Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations 41
8. Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks: Representations of Self and Other in Asia and Europe 57
9. Imagineering Tailor-Made Pasts for Nation-Building and Tourism: A Comparative Perspective 93
10. Holy Land Protestant Themed Environments and the Spiritual Experience 111
11. From Themed Space to Lifespace 135
12. Transhistorical Action: Performance and Social Experience
13. Themed Environments – Performative Spaces: Performing Visitors in North American Living History Museums 157
14. Staging the Past in the Revolutionary City: Colonial Williamsburg 177
15. “The New You”: Best Practice in Historical Live Interpretation 199
16. History’s Pure Serene: On Reenacting Cook’s First Voyage, September 2001 205
17. “Little Families”: The Social Fabric of Civil War Reenacting 219
18. Ventures into History 235
19. Playing Ethnology 253
20. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 269