Tourism and the power of otherness [electronic resource] : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine.

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ISBN:

9781845414177

Title:

Tourism and the power of otherness [electronic resource] : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine.

Author:

Picard, David.

Publication Information:

Clevedon : Channel View Publications, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Series:

Tourism and Cultural Change

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Introduction: Through Other Worlds; Part 1 Travels into a Past Golden Age; 2 Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan Pyrenees; 3 Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme Park; 4 Tourism and Post-socialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural Past; Part 2 Tourism and Others in Dialogue; 5 Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa; 6 Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement

7 Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland Bolivia Part 3 Travel, Other and Self-Revelation; 8 Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in Turkey; 9 Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of Africa; 10 Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel Practice

Subject Term:

Culture and tourism.

Tourism -- Psychological aspects.

Added Author:

Picard, David.

Di Giovine, Michael A.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Clevedon : Channel View Publications, 2014.

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Summary

This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life.

Author Notes

Picard David :

David Picard is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research interests include the anthropology of tourism and hospitality as well as land and resource tenure. Recent publications include Tourism, Magic and Modernity (2011).

Di Giovine Michael A. :

Michael A. Di Giovine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on the anthropology of tourism and hospitality, mobilities, heritage studies, and religious tourism and pilgrimage. He is the author of The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism (2009).

1 David Picard and Michael Di Giovine: Introduction: Through Other WorldsDavid Picard; Michael A. Di Giovine

2 Camila del Mármol: Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan PyreneesCamila del Mármol

3 Paula Mota Santos: Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme ParkPaula Mota Santos

4 Mathilde Verschaeve and Hannah C. Wadle: Tourism and Postsocialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural PastMathilde Verschaeve; Hannah C. Wadle

5 Pamila Gupta: Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Touristic GoaPamila Gupta

6 Noel B. Salazar: Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist EnticementNoel B. Salazar

7 Clare A. Sammells: Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland BoliviaClare A. Sammells

8 Sanne Scheltena: Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in TurkeySanne Scheltena

9 Marcela Knapp and Frauke Wiegand: Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of AfricaMarcela Knapp; Frauke Wiegand

10 Christian Ghasarian: Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel PracticeChristian Ghasarian

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