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  • The Ethnography of Tourism

    Edward Bruner and Beyond

    by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Margaret Byrne Swain, Julia Harrison, Mary Mostafanezhad, David Picard, Kathleen M. Adams, Edward M. Bruner0, Nelson Graburn1, Walter E. Little2, Sally Ann Ness3, Valerio Simoni4, Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine5 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    **Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize CommitteeWhat does it mean to study tourism ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Seductions of Pilgrimage

    Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition

    Edited by Michael A. Di Giovine, David Picard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Framed World

    Tourism, Tourists and Photography

    Edited by David Picard, Mike Robinson ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places, peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the tourist gaze. Photography is acknowledged as having an important role in the determining of places and spaces, the construction and re-construction of identities, and the invention and re-invention of histories. So why do tourists take photos of certain things and not of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Regimes of Value in Tourism

    Edited by Emilie Crossley, David Picard ...
    Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain. Much theory in tourism economics defines ‘value’ as a measure of monetary worth, a concept governing commodity exchange, and a gauge for tourist satisfaction. The research included in this volume shows that tourism ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Emotion in Motion

    Tourism, Affect and Transformation

    Edited by Mike Robinson, David Picard ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment? What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Festivals, Tourism and Social Change

    Remaking Worlds

    Edited by David Picard, Prof. Mike Robinson ...
    Series Book 8 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tourism and the Power of Otherness

    Seductions of Difference

    Edited by David Picard, Michael A. Di Giovine ...
    Series Book 34 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    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. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tourism, Magic and Modernity

    Cultivating the Human Garden

    by David Picard ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Anthropology
    Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Tourism, Magic and Modernity

    Cultivating the Human Garden

    by David Picard ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Anthropology
    Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is ... Read more

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  • Cultural Geography

    by Mike Crang ...
    First Published in 1998. The so-called 'cultural tum' in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture, taking cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place. Cultural Geography introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

    Edited by Stephen Cairns ...
    Series series Architext
    To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focussed on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation. The first is the very idea ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    Edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Sheila Watson, Simon Knell ...
    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD