Tourism: Between Place and Performance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571817468 ISBN 13: 9781571817464

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2002

Synopsis

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places, and traveling cultures. Contributors highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. Mike Crang is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Durham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1571817468
• ISBN 13: 9781571817464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Coleman Simon, Crang Mike, Coleman S.