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- Title
Making an Island in Time: Dutch Folklore Studies, Painting, Tourism, and Craniometry around 1900.
- Authors
Roodenburg, Herman
- Abstract
The article presents studies of Dutch folklore, painting, tourism, and craniometry around 1900. In the last decades of the nineteenth century a colorful group of painters, travelers, and scholars became fascinated with the island of Marken, a small fishing community some ten miles north of Amsterdam. The island evoked images of Holland's Golden Age, of its robust and glorious seventeenth century. Written and illustrated sources from the period offer a surprising palette of national glorification, primitivism, and race. Mass tourism soon entered the scene, fostered by convenient transportation.
- Subjects
MARKEN Island (Netherlands); NETHERLANDS; FOLKLORE; TOURISM; CRANIOMETRY; PRIMITIVISM; RACE
- Publication
Journal of Folklore Research, 2002, Vol 39, Issue 2/3, p173
- ISSN
0737-7037
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/JFR.2002.39.2-3.173