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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : CABI Pub., 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/8
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DannGraham
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The tourist as a metaphor of the social world
• ISBN: 1-280-83352-1; 9786610833528; 0-85199-761-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455620003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II