The Tourist

A New Theory of the Leisure Class
1. Auflage, With a New Introduction 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-28000-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maccannell, Dean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).