Creating america's ‘czech capital’: Ethnic identity and heritage tourism in wilber, Nebraska

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-85

  Zeitler, Ezra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural commoditization; Czech Americans; Ethnic identity; Festivals; Heritage tourism; Nebraska; Symbolic ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867870082     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17438730802139186     Document Type: Article

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