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Museumization

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Germany's past as plaything at Epcot

Increasingly the best indication of the final victory of modernity over other socio-cultural arrangements is not the disappearance of the non-modern world, but its artificial preservation and reconstruction in modern society. The separation of non-modern culture traits from their original contexts and their distribution as modern playthings. MacCannell 1989, 8