David Picard

Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden

Buch

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who liv… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78238-321-5
EAN: 9781782383215
Produktnummer: 15151888
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 307 g
Gewicht: 307

Über den Autor

David Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) at New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of La Reunion, Indian Ocean and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.