Juniper Publishers Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Opinion Discussions on restitution have been acquiring momentum. Museum Week in 2018 has been marked in the press by a series of articles which support this direction. It started with an email from an Indian colleague who was at the ARCA conference last year where I was talking about the history of collecting of European museums and the gathering of antiquities during the late 18th and early 19th century. This is an argument about which I have been very passionate and that has been at the core of my research interests, teaching and public engagement, since my postgraduate days. On the Queen’s birthday, Anuraag Saxena had written a provocative and passionate article Your Majesty: Thou shalt not steal on the need to return Indian artefacts to India, calling for a ‘reverse [of] the colonial-era plunder, especially symbols of our culture - our heritage’. With the India Pride Project, Anuraag is an active prop...

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Introduction Oxford English Dictionary defines the noun of tourism, as ‘travel for pleasure’. Traveling has always been a human need. Seeing everywhere, pry, and understanding other civilizations are development motors of communities. Nevertheless, types of tourists and their motivations have always been under change. Patterns and systems of tourism are varying by the time passing. The changes are caused by various livelihoods and cultures of the regions. Different environments, climates, natural systems and people make the varieties. Theses diversities enhance the contents of sociocultural systems too. Such dissimilarities make foundations for innovations and creativity. Handicraft productions are the result of the creativity. Today, the tourism industry, particularly the creative tourism, is a key to developments in major countries, especially underdevelopment countries. According to statistics and reports, the tourism...