Emerging Approaches
Touring the Palate Palette: Agritourism as Art and Rural Development in Ghana's Volta Region
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nathan Crook, D. Rose Elder
Agritourism is a form of rural tourism that focuses on rural intangible culture. Typically, tourism specialists plan a collection of adventures and activities to make their area a destination and capture much needed currency from tourist spending but frequently overlook the value of the agricultural sector. This presentation outlines our collaborative efforts with local producers in Ghana’s Volta Region to develop an agritourism trail as an artistic performance of local food traditions, culture, and cuisine. From the sight of the delicate pinks of the cocoa blossom to the tangy taste of the slimy flesh surrounding the cocoa bean, the senses hum. Saunterers on the Asogli Agritourism Trail encounter traditional production of cocoa, as well as coffee, palm, groundnuts, casava, honey, rice, cowpeas, and more. Through agritourism, food traditions become an artistic performance where participants engage with producers in creating and experiencing foods, colors, textures, flavors, aromas in a vivid display as varied as a painter’s palette. Self-identified representative foods are recognized as culinary strengths of the community. They provide a way to express oneself and their community identity, to be seen, to be recognized, and to be appreciated. At an intersection of agriculture, cuisine, and tourism, agritourism grants access to communities that are not typically considered touristic destinations where farmers generously share their lived experience and Intangible Cultural Heritage. The experience has the power to create an artistic output that engages, humanizes, and values traditional peoples and products.
The Innovative Logic and Practical Path of Museum Digital Publishing from the Perspective of Knowledge Sociology Based on Chinese Experience
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Yuan Deng
Museum digital publishing is an important format to implement cultural digitalization strategy and promote the construction and development of the knowledge society. Following the objective laws of the knowledge society and combining the latest trends in digital publishing and social culture, the practical exploration of museum digital publishing needs to focus on promoting content resource sharing through database publishing in the production process, promoting re-contextualization through exhibition-themed publications in the re-contextualization process, and promoting interactive appreciation through immersive and interactive innovative forms in the reproduction process. Looking to the future, museum digital publishing should focus on the use of digital intelligence technology to enable the discovery and updating of cultural relics value, focus on interdisciplinary cross-cutting to promote new discoveries, focus on real-time feedback and interactive generation of value connotations, and jointly promote the in-depth integration and exploration of museum digital publishing.
