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UNINA9910962949303321 |
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Titolo |
Great expectations : imagination and anticipation in tourism / / edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Directions in Anthropology ; ; 34 |
New directions in anthropology ; ; v. 34 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SkinnerJonathan <1970-> |
TheodossopoulosDimitrios |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tourism - Psychological aspects |
Travelers - Psychology |
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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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Great Expectations; Contents; Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Play of Expectation in Tourism; Chapter 2 - Success and Access to Knowledge in the Tourist-Local Encounter: Confrontations with the Unexpected in a Turkish Community; Chapter 3 - Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the World of Expectations; Chapter 4 - The Paradox of Gaze and Resistance in Native American Cultural Tourism: An Alaskan Case Study; Chapter 5 - Forward into the Past: 'Digging' the Balearic Islands; Chapter 6 - On Difference, Desire and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: The White Masai in Kenyan Tourism |
Chapter 7 - Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' Tourist Expectation and Desire on and off the Cuban Dance FloorChapter 8 - The Coach Fellas: Tourism Performance and Expectation in Ireland; Chapter 9 - Going on Holiday to Imagine War: The Western Front Battlefields as Sites of Commenoration and Contestation; Chapter 10 - Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect in Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds Exhibitions; Chapter 11 - Afterworld: The Tour as Imagined, Lived, Experienced and Told; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic |
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