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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Lists; Preface; Chapter 1 Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory; Part 1: The Place of Nature; Chapter 2 The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-Seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape; Chapter 3 The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon; Chapter 4 The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle; Part II: Back to the City; Chapter 5 Acting Local: Two Performances in Northern Italy; Chapter 6 'Cose Paesane': Tourist Performances and Contested Localities in the Italian Alps.
- Chapter 7 Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the CityChapter 8 Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City; Part III: Distanciated Places; Chapter 9 Welcome to Flinstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey; Chapter 10 Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota; Chapter 11 Farming, Dreaming, and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia; Part IV: Bring it All Back Home; Chapter 12 The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory; Chapter 13 Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters; References; Index.