The Tourist – A New Theory of the Leisure Class - Softcover

Maccannell, Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520218922 ISBN 13: 9780520218925

Publisher: University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisure time for international travel. This edition includes a new foreword by Lucy R. Lippard and a new afterword by the author.

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Review:

"More than a perceptive, entertaining discussion of tourists and tourism ["The Tourist] is also a skillful blend of structuralist thought. . . . Both MacCannell's literary style and theoretical sophistication are genuine contributions to sociological scholarship."--Susanne Wedow, "Contemporary Sociology

Synopsis:

An examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. The text brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel in the postindustrial age.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520218922
• ISBN 13: 9780520218925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264