The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure ClassUniv of California Press, 31.08.2013 - 231 Seiten In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist—now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis—the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
1Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences | 17 |
2Sightseeing and Social Structure | 39 |
Origins of Alienated Leisure | 57 |
4The Other Attractions | 77 |
5Staged Authenticity | 91 |
6A Semiotic of Attraction | 109 |
7The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers | 135 |
8Structure Genuine and Spurious | 145 |
9On Theory Methods and Application | 161 |
Epilogue | 189 |
Notes | 205 |
| 221 | |
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