Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel, Julia Harrison
Автор: Julia Harrison Название: Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel ISBN: 0774809779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774809771 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? Whatfeeds the impulse to explore new horizons? In Being a Tourist,Harrison analyzes her conversations with a large group ofupper-middle-class travellers. Why, she asks, do these people investtheir resources -- financial, emotional, psychological, and physical --in this activity? Harrison suggests that they are fuelled by severaldesires, including a search for intimacy and connection, an expressionof personal aesthetic, an exploration of the understanding of"home," and a sensemaking strategy for a globalized world.She also reflects on the moral and political complexities of thetravels of these people.
Being a Tourist draws on a wide range of social theory,going beyond current debates of authenticity and consumption.Engagingly and thoughtfully written, it will be required reading forthose in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and, moregenerally, for anyone interested in tourism studies and travelwriting.
Описание: This book presents a temporally and geographically broad yet detailed history of an important form of Native American architecture, the platform mound. While the variation in these earthen monuments across the Eastern United States has sparked much debate among archaeologists, this landmark study reveals unexpected continuities in moundbuilding over many thousands of years.In A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism, Megan Kassabaum synthesizes an exceptionally wide dataset of 149 platform mound sites from the earliest iterations of the structure 7,500 years ago to its latest manifestations. Kassabaum discusses Archaic period sites from Florida and the Lower Mississippi Valley, as well as Woodland period sites across the Midwest and Southeast, to revisit traditional perspectives on later, more well-known Mississippian-era mounds.Kassabaum's chronological approach corrects major flaws in the ways these constructions have been interpreted in the past. This comprehensive history exposes nonlinear shifts in mound function, use, and meaning across space and time and suggests a dynamic view of the vitality and creativity of their builders. Ending with a discussion of Native American beliefs about and uses of earthen mounds today, Kassabaum reminds us that this history will continue to be written for many generations to come.
Автор: Mayseless Ofra, Russo-Netzer Pninit Название: Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel ISBN: 0190910356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190910358 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book implements a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers a search for meaning among its contemporary citizens. It combines theory, data, and illustrative case studies to unravel a variety of significant and fundamental manifestations of this quest as it is seen under existential duress.
Описание: Traces the reception of Henry David Thoreau`s work from the time of his death to his ascendancy as an environmental icon in the 1970s, revealing insights into American culture`s conception of the environment. This book tells the captivating story of one writer`s rise from obscurity to fame through a cultural reappraisal of the work he left behind.
Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn’t about the absence of people. It’s about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land.
A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
Описание: This edited volume explores the interconnections between care work, travel, and healthcare, placing an emphasis on the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home.
Автор: Trend, David Название: Everyday Culture ISBN: 1594514275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594514272 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Trend, David Название: Everyday Culture ISBN: 1594514267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594514265 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Palmer, Catherine (university Of Brighton) Название: Being and dwelling through tourism ISBN: 1409422488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409422488 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an overarching framework using the concept of dwelling taken from Heidegger and Ingold as the starting point from which to consider the interrelatedness of being, dwelling and tourism. It will be of interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, geography, cultural studies, leisure and tourist studies.
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