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Festivals, Tourism and Social Change : Remaking Worlds.

Explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Picard, David
Otros Autores: Robinson, Mike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2006.
Colección:Tourism & Cultural Change S., No. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; The Contributors; Chapter 1 Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change; Chapter 2 La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival; Chapter 3 Gardening the Past and Being in the World: A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion; Chapter 4 Becoming All Indian: Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival; Chapter 5 The 'Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets': Celebration, Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival.
  • Chapter 6 The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide FootballChapter 7 'Days of Radunica': A Street Festival in the Croatian Town of Split; Chapter 8 Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals, Tourism and the Complexities of Performing Culture; Chapter 9 Creating the 'Rainbow Nation': The National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa; Chapter 10 Kyrgyzstan'