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UNINA9910455620003321 |
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Titolo |
The tourist as a metaphor of the social world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Graham M.S. Dann |
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New York, : CABI Pub., 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-83352-1 |
9786610833528 |
0-85199-761-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tourism - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 Tourism13 Glastonbury: a Tourist Town for All Seasons; 14 The Tourist as Peak Consumer; 15 The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity; 16 The Cybertourist; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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