The Tourist

The Tourist
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780520280007
ISBN-13 : 0520280008
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Book Synopsis The Tourist by : Dean MacCannell

Download or read book The Tourist written by Dean MacCannell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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