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Festivals, Tourism and Social Change : Remaking Worlds.
Title:
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change : Remaking Worlds.
Author:
Picard, David.
ISBN:
9781845410490
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Series:
Tourism & Cultural Change S., No. 8
Contents:
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 Football -- Chapter 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's Manas Epos Millennium Celebrations: Post-Colonial Resurgence of Turkic Culture and the Marketing of Cultural Tourism -- Chapter 11 The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity -- Chapter 12 Christmas Markets in the Tyrolean Alps: Representing Regional Traditions in a Newly Created World of Christmas -- Chapter 13 The Placeless Festival: Identity and Place in the Post-Modern Festival -- Chapter 14 Gay and Lesbian Festivals: Tourism in the Change from Politics to Party -- Chapter 15 Mobility, Diaspora and the Hybridisation of Festivity: The Case of the Edinburgh Mela -- Chapter 16 Taking Québec City: Protest, Carnival and Tourism at the Summit of the Americas -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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