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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780096403321

Autore

MacCannell Dean

Titolo

Empty meeting grounds : the tourist papers / / Dean MacCannell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-93397-5

1-134-93398-3

1-280-32260-8

9786610322602

0-203-41214-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

301

306.3

Soggetti

Cultural relativism

Tourism - Social aspects

Postmodernism

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

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 (p. [310]-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Cannibalism today; Orange County, Yugoslavia; Postmodern community planning: notes on the homeless and other nomads; Nature Incorporated; White Culture; The Liberty restoration project; Reconstructed ethnicity: tourism and cultural identity in Third World communities; The Locke case; The desire to be postmodern; Spectacles; The future of ritual; The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC; Afterword: misplaced traditions and the new 'folk-urban continuum'; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Empty Meeting Grounds examines some of the new cultural forms and community arrangements that accompany the development of global tourism.