Tourist A New Theory of the Leisure Class

Name: Tourist A New Theory of the Leisure Class
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ISBN: 9780520280007

ISBN-10: 0520280008

ISBN-13: 9780520280007

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Dean MacCannell

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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.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Dean MacCannellis Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis, and is the author ofThe Tourist(UC Press).



Foreword



The Tourist in 2013


Introduction to the 1989 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences


Marx's Semiotic


Commodity and Symbol


The Structure of Cultural Experiences


Cultural Productions and Social Groups


The Work Experience



Sightseeing and Social Structure


The Moral Integration of Modernity


Attractions and Structural Differentiation


Tourist Districts


The Differentiations of the Tourist World



The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure



The Other Attractions


The Function of the Museum in Modern Culture


Parks


Tradition


History



Staged Authenticity


Front, Back and Reality


Back Regions and Social Solidarity


Authenticity in Tourist Settings


Staged Authenticity in Tourist Settings


The Structure of Tourist Settings


Tourists and Intellectuals


Conclusion



A Semiotic of Attraction


Markers


Sight Involvement and Marker Involvement


The Relationship of Markers (Signifier) to Sights (Signified)


Contact and Recognition


The Domination of a Sight by Its Markers


The Marker as Symbol



The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers


"When I Actually Saw It for the First Time"


"Truth" Markers


The Construction of Social Reality



Structure, Genuine and Spurious


Spurious Structure


Macrostructural Spuriousness


Genuine Structure


Conclusion



On Theory, Methods and Application


Applications


Methods


Theory


Epilogue


Notes


Index