Mediating heritage: Tour guides at the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg

This article draws on media theory in order to theorize the role of tour guides as a form of cultural mediation. It does so by analysing the work of tour guides at a site of ‘difficult heritage’, the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The work of tour guides is here conceptualize...

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Published in:Tourist studies 2006-08, Vol.6 (2), p.119-138
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