Tourist

A New Theory of the Leisure Class

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist - now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis - the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-31
Mått:139 x 209 x 16 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520280007

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Dean MacCannell is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Empty Meeting Grounds (1992) and The Time of the Sign (1982).

Recensioner i media

"The Tourist is one of those books that can be best enjoyed for its heuristic value, for the questions it raises as much as for the answers it offers."

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Lucy Lippard The Tourist in 2013 Introduction to the 1989 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences 2. Sightseeing and Social Structure 3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure 4. The Other Attractions 5. Staged Authenticity 6. A Semiotic of Attraction 7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers 8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious 9. On Theory, Methods, and Application Epilogue Notes Index