The tourist : a new theory of the leisure class / Dean MacCannell.

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MacCannell, Dean

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TextPublication details: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, c2013.Description: 231 p. ; 31 cmISBN:

9780520280007

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306.4819

Contents:

Ch. 1. Modernity and the production of touristic experiences -- Ch. 2. Sightseeing and social structure -- Ch. 3. The Paris case: origins of alienated leisure -- Ch. 4. The other attractions -- Ch. 5. Staged authenticity -- Ch. 6. A semiotic attraction -- Ch. 7. The ethnomethodology of sightseers -- Ch. 8. Structure, genuine and spurious -- Ch. 9. On theory, methods and applications.

Summary: It is a classic analysis of travel and sightseeing that brings social scientific understanding to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. It examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

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With a new introduction. Includes notes and index.

Ch. 1. Modernity and the production of touristic experiences --
Ch. 2. Sightseeing and social structure --
Ch. 3. The Paris case: origins of alienated leisure --
Ch. 4. The other attractions --
Ch. 5. Staged authenticity --
Ch. 6. A semiotic attraction --
Ch. 7. The ethnomethodology of sightseers --
Ch. 8. Structure, genuine and spurious --
Ch. 9. On theory, methods and applications.

It is a classic analysis of travel and sightseeing that brings social scientific understanding to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. It examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

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