Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference by Picard, David

Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845414153)

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Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference by Picard, David

Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference

$34.95
Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference by Picard, David

Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life.



Author: David Picard
ISBN-10: 1845414152
ISBN-13: 9781845414153
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2014
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.50d
By David Picard
By David Picard
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David Picard is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research interests include the anthropology of tourism and hospitality as well as land and resource tenure. Recent publications include Tourism, Magic and Modernity (2011).

Michael A. Di Giovine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on the anthropology of tourism and hospitality, mobilities, heritage studies, and religious tourism and pilgrimage. He is the author of The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism (2009).

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