Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Cultivating the Human Garden
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 li…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-202-3
- EAN: 9780857452023
- Produktnummer: 20453268
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'456 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 32
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.
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