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,...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Picard, David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Collection:New directions in anthropology ; v. 32.
Sujets:
Tourism > Social aspects.
Culture and tourism.
Magic > Social aspects.
Anthropology > Social aspects.
Ethnotourisme.
Anthropologie > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: penguins in the Paris underground
  • Tourism and magic
  • Creole beautiful
  • Cultivating society as a human garden
  • Hospitality and love
  • Bougainvilleas at the riverside
  • Poachers in the coral garden
  • History as an aesthetics of everyday life
  • Towards a global gardening state.

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