As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews, site guidebooks, and tourist brochures, Duke helps us understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists’ view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island of Crete, both Minoan and modern.

当研究人员将他们的分析技能用于当代考古旅游时，他们发现，它与现在和过去一样重要。菲利普-杜克对游客凝视青铜时代克里特岛遗迹的研究突出了这种过去和现在、异国情调和世俗之间的联系。通过使用个人日记、人种学访谈、遗址指南和旅游手册，杜克帮助我们理解了考古遗址、博物馆和构建的过去对游客对自己文化的看法的影响，以及它如何使国内以及克里特岛上的阶级不平等合法化，包括米诺斯时代和现代。