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In search of hospitality [electronic resource].
ISBN:
9780080508566
Title:
In search of hospitality [electronic resource].
Author:
Lashley, Conrad.
Personal Author:
Lashley, Conrad.
Publication Information:
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
In Search of Hospitality Theoretical perspectives and debates; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; About the authors; CHAPTER 1 Towards a theoretical understanding; Background to the book; Hospitality in the social domain; Hospitality in the private domain; Hospitality in the commercial domain; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 2 An anthropology of hospitality; Structures and functions of hospitality; Hospitality as moral obligation; Virtues and pleasures; Hospitality and its symbolic materials; Hospitality in an Indian village: the case of an inter-caste feast; Conclusions; Notes

ReferencesCHAPTER 3 The philosophy of hospitableness; The good host; Hospitable motives; Kinds of guest; Hospitableness as a moral virtue; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 4 The hospitality trades: a social history; Accommodating travellers; Regulating excess; Eating and travelling as leisure activities; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 5 Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance; Hospitality as performance; Taboos and etiquette in the 'put up' and the visit; Your own home?; Expectations and taboos in domestic hospitality; Tensions in the host-guest relationship

Stories about taboos brokenConclusions; Notes; References; CHAPTER 6 Home and commercialized hospitality; The concept of 'home'; The significance of gender; Female entrepreneurship; Host-guest dynamics; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 7 Mediated meanings of hospitality: television personality food programmes; Situated and mediated culture; Interpreting media texts - semiotic analysis; The television personality food programme genre; Simplicity and sophistication; Intimacy and trust; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 8 Hospitality and hospitality management; Defining hospitality

Defining hospitality managementConclusions; References; CHAPTER 9 Managing hospitality operations; Historical development; The characteristics of commercial hospitality operations; Operational complexity; The industrialization of service; A customer perspective; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 10 Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality; Ontology and hospitality; Positivism in the study of hospitality; Hermeneutics and interpretation in the study of hospitality; Critical theory and hospitality research; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 11 Humour in commercial hospitality settings

Humour definedHumour, hospitality and caring; Deliberate humour; Unintentional humour; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 12 Consuming hospitality: learning from post-modernism?; Towards a theory of post-modern hospitality; Defining post-modernism; Consuming hospitality in a post-modern era; Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 13 Consuming hospitality on holiday; Ethnography of consuming hospitality; The interface between guest and host; Conclusions; Notes; References; CHAPTER 14 Working in the hospitality industry; The context of hospitality work; Service or servile: relationships with guests

Who am I? Identity and hospitality work
Subject Term:
Hospitality industry.

Hospitality industry -- Social aspects.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.