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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

  • Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage

    by Dr Nitasha Sharma, Müjde Bidec, Geraldine Anne Tan, Luke Howie, Dr Danielle Johannesen, Dr Boža Grafenauer, Dr Lea Kužnik, Katheryn Wright, Nuša Basle, Alissa Burger, Angela Carr, Donna Comtesse, Janna R. Caspersen, Matthew Cook, Scott K. Esplin, Julie Hartley-Moore, Jennifer Hayes, Brian J. Hill, Jacie L. Jones, Kathy Knox, Sonja Sibila Lebe, Cecelia R. Lewis, Sonia Mileva, Dane Munro, Stephen Newton, Lidija Pliberšek, Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter, Nicholas J. Walkowiak, Peter J. Ward, Yachen Zhang, Alexandra Coghlan, Joseph Donica, Dr Nigel Bond ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of ... Read more

    $132.89 USD

  • South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11

    Masks of Threat

    by Hasan al Zayed, Lopamudra Basu, Chandrima Chakraborty, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, John Hutnyk, Stanley Thangaraj, Sarah Wahab, Nitasha Sharma ...
    This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection examines South Asian American identities to understand culture, policy making, and the ... Read more

    $44.59 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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