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Tourism, magic, and modernity : cultivating the human garden /
"Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Colección: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 189 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857452023 0857452029 1782383220 9781782383222 1283326434 9781283326438 9786613326430 6613326437 |