Turystyka i przestrzeń w kontekście pamięci kulturowej (na przykładzie powiatów nyskiego i prudnickiego)
Tourism and space in the context of cultural memory (case studies of the Counties of Nysa and Prudnik)

Summary/Abstract: The authors, making reference to the concept of culture memory, worked out by J. Assmann and A. Ass-mann, analyze transformations of the space and tourist descriptions of objects through the prism of messages created about the local past. In the first part of the article, the authors discuss transformations of the space (rebuilding of objects destroyed as a result of military operations during the World War 2, pulling down of undamaged objects or changing the appearance or the functions of individual objects, revitalization of objects) and show what pictures of the local past were created in consequence of such actions. The second part shows objects pointed to tourists as worthy of their attention and ways of their presentation. The authors analyzed some scores of local and regional publications on tourism and touring, which come from different years after the war. On this basis they prove, that the catalogue of tourist attractions, which is formed on the basis of legacy of the past, makes a construct being the consequence of not only knowledge (recognition of the given space), but also of the choice of traditions, which is being made in determined historical and cultural reality.

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