Tourist : a new theory of the leisure class
- Format:
- book
- Title:
- Tourist : a new theory of the leisure class
- Year:
- 2013
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- Xxxviii, 231 pages ;.
- Call number:
- PENTA.338.4 MACC 13 (PENTA)
- ISBN:
- 0520280008
9780520280007 - Subject:
- Leisure
Tourism
Travelers - Summary:
- In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, Dean MacCannel brings social scientific understanding to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel, Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences -- Sightseeing and Social Structure -- The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure -- The Other Attractions -- Staged Authenticity -- A Semiotic of Attraction -- The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers -- Structure, Genuine and Spurious -- On Theory, Methods and Application.
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