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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455620003321

Titolo

The tourist as a metaphor of the social world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Graham M.S. Dann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : CABI Pub., 2002

ISBN

1-280-83352-1

9786610833528

0-85199-761-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DannGraham

Disciplina

306.4/8

Soggetti

Tourism - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.