Tradition and postmodernity: new challenges for the management of heritage

Abstract

This paper examines some recent contributions to the analysis of posmodernity and highlights their relevance for the study of cultural heritage using the contemporary jacobean pilgrimage as example. In line with anthropologists that work in the field of cultural heritage in Galicia, the author makes some proposals to counteract the reductive effects of the postmodern regime of signification on cultural production.

Keywords

• patrimonio cultural
• posmodernidad
• peregrinación jacobea
• turismo