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  • Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies

    Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore

    Edited by Jane Lovell, Nitasha Sharma ...
    Series series Routledge Insights in Tourism Series
    This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism. It showcases magical storytelling, ecologies, realities, entities, belief systems, cultural heritage, and rituals leading to spiritual, otherworldly, enchanting, mindful, interconnected, green, and dark experiences.The volume offers the reader insights into the exciting, popular new tourism trend of magical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Authentic and Inauthentic Places in Tourism

    From Heritage Sites to Theme Parks

    by Jane Lovell, Chris Bull ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    With the rise of post-truth and fake news, a thorough examination of authenticity has never been so relevant. This book explores the geography of authenticity, investigating a wide variety of places used by tourists. Not only does it assess what might be described as the more traditional objects for examination – places such as the city, the countryside and the coast – it also includes chapters on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Authenticity in North America

    Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination

    Edited by Jane Lovell, Sam Hitchmough ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place.Blending social sciences and humanities research skills, it formulates an examination of the geography of authenticity in North America, and brings together studies of both rurality and urbanity ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Japanese Love Hotels

    A Cultural History

    by Sarah Chaplin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

    Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

    by Jenny Blain ...
    This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness and the interactions of seid-workers or shamanic practitioners with their spirit worlds. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

    Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Shamanism

    Edited by Neil Price ...
    In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Body and Emotion

    The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

    by Robert R. Desjarlais ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Haunting Bollywood

    Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

    by Meheli Sen ...
    Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Theatre and the World

    Performance and the Politics of Culture

    by Rustom Bharucha ...
    In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective.Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • South Asian Gothic

    Haunted cultures, histories and media

    Edited by Katarzyna Ancuta, Deimantas Valančiūnas ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supernatural Cities

    Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectrality

    by Karl Bell, Maria del Pilar Blanco, Mikhail Vandyshev, Morag Rose, Natalia Veselkova, Oliver Betts, Sharn Waldron, Tom Sykes, Tracy Fahey, William Pooley0, William Redwood1, Alevtina Solovyova2, Alex Bevan3, David J. Puglia4, David Waldron5, Deirdre Flynn6, Elena Pryamikova7, Felicity Wood8 ...
    Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour magic. Scholars have long assumed that the world of the supernatural withered under the impact of urbanisation; yet, as numerous books, films and T.V. series from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD