Tourism : between place and performance /
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2002
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many diff. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236). |
| ISBN: | 9780857457134 0857457136 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
