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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bell, Claudia (Contribuidor), Boissevain, Jeremy (Contribuidor), Chaney, David (Contribuidor), Coleman, Simon (Contribuidor, Editor ), Crang, Mike (Contribuidor, Editor ), Crouch, David (Contribuidor), Eade, John (Contribuidor), Filippucci, Paola (Contribuidor), Lyall, John (Contribuidor), MacDonald, Fraser (Contribuidor), Meltzer, Eve (Contribuidor), Neumann, Mark (Contribuidor), Ridler, Keith (Contribuidor), Springwood, Charles Fruehling (Contribuidor), Travlou, Penny (Contribuidor), Tucker, Hazel (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2002]
Temas:
Tourism > Social aspects.
Tourism.
Travel / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory
  • THE PLACE OF NATURE
  • The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-Seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape
  • Making The Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon
  • The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle
  • BACK TO THE CITY
  • Acting Local: Two Performances In Northern Italy
  • 'Cose Paesane' Tourist Performances and Contested Localities in the Italian Alps
  • Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the City
  • Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End'
  • DISTANCIATED PLACES
  • Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey
  • Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota
  • Farming, Dreaming, and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia
  • BRING IT ALL BACK HOME
  • The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory
  • Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters
  • References
  • Index

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