The tourist as a metaphor of the social world /

• Corporate Author: World Congress of Sociology
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Tourism > Congresses. > Social aspects; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Social anthropology.; Sociology of tourism.; Tourism.; Tourism theory.; Tourists.; Electronic books.
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This book includes 15 papers selected from the presentations that were delivered at the 15th World Congress of the International Sociological Association. These papers were prepared for that organization's research committee on international tourism, which took as its overall theme 'the to...

Table of Contents:

• The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World / Graham M.S. Dann
• The Ethnographic Tourist / Nelson H.H. Graburn
• The Discursive Tourist / Kevin Moore
• The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life / Scott McCabe
• The Home and the World : (Post)touristic Spaces of (In)authenticity? / Tazim Jamal and Steve Hill
• Trusting Tourists : an Investigation into Tourism, Trust and Social Order / Lesley Kuhn
• The Tourist as a Social Fact / David Picard
• Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis : the Personae of Eternal Recurrence / A.V. Seaton
• Tourism : Enacting Modern Myths / Christoph Hennig
• A Love Affair with Elsewhere : Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing / Jaap Lengkeek
• Leading the Tourist by the Nose / Graham M.S. Dann and Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen
• Re-centring the Self in Volunteer Tourism / Stephen Wearing
• Glastonbury : a Tourist Town for All Seasons / Justine Digance and Carole Cusack
• The Tourist as Peak Consumer / Ning Wang
• The Cinematic Tourist : Perception and Subjectivity / Bronwyn Morkham and Russell Staiff
• The Cybertourist / Bruce Prideaux.