Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World.
Title:
Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World.
Author:
Dann, G.M.S.
ISBN:
9780851997612
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (355 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World -- 2 The Ethnographic Tourist -- 3 The Discursive Tourist -- 4 The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life -- 5 The Home and the World: (Post)touristic Spaces of (In)authenticity? -- 6 Trusting Tourists: an Investigation into Tourism, Trust and Social Order -- 7 The Tourist as a Social Fact -- 8 Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis: the Personae of Eternal Recurrence -- 9 Tourism: Enacting Modern Myths* -- 10 A Love Affair with Elsewhere: Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing -- 11 Leading the Tourist by the Nose -- 12 Re-centring the Self in Volunteer Tourism -- 13 Glastonbury: a Tourist Town for All Seasons -- 14 The Tourist as Peak Consumer -- 15 The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity -- 16 The Cybertourist -- Index.
Abstract:
This text contains a selection of papers from the Research Committee on International Tourism. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research.
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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