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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.
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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
31 August 2013
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520280007
Format: Paperback
"The Tourist is one of those books that can be best enjoyed for its heuristic value, for the questions it raises as much as for the answers it offers."
"MacCannell attempts to create something Levi-Strauss said is impossible: an ethnography of modernity, a detailed anthropological analysis of modern culture. . . . By following the tourist, he believes, we may arrive at a better understanding of ourselves."
"In the demythologizing tradition of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class, MacCannell presents the first full-scale sociological examination of modern tourism and sightseeing."
"More than a perceptive, entertaining discussion of tourists and tourism, The Tourist is also a skillful blend of structuralist thought. . . . Both MacCannell’s literary style and theoretical sophistication are genuine contributions to sociological scholarship."
"Provides a compelling analysis of leisure in contemporary society and the changed nature of the human condition amidst modernity."
Dean MacCannell is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Empty Meeting Grounds (1992) and The Time of the Sign (1982).
Foreword by Lucy Lippard
The Tourist in 2013
Introduction to the 1989 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences
2. Sightseeing and Social Structure
3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure
4. The Other Attractions
5. Staged Authenticity
6. A Semiotic of Attraction
7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers
8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious
9. On Theory, Methods, and Application
Epilogue
Notes
Index
The Tourist in 2013
Introduction to the 1989 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences
2. Sightseeing and Social Structure
3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure
4. The Other Attractions
5. Staged Authenticity
6. A Semiotic of Attraction
7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers
8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious
9. On Theory, Methods, and Application
Epilogue
Notes
Index