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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Dean Maccannell
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Description for The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
paperback. Brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. This title examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280007
SKU
V9780520280007
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About Dean Maccannell
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).
Reviews for The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
"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."
New York Times
"MacCannell attempts to create something Levi-Strauss said is impossible: an ethnography of modernity, a detailed anthropological analysis of modern culture. . . . By following the ... Read more
New York Times
"MacCannell attempts to create something Levi-Strauss said is impossible: an ethnography of modernity, a detailed anthropological analysis of modern culture. . . . By following the ... Read more