Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist PapersEmpty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on `Cannibal Tours', `The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park. |
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Cannibalism today | 17 |
Orange County Yugoslavia | 74 |
Postmodern community planning notes on the homeless and other nomads | 87 |
Nature Incorporated | 114 |
White Culture | 121 |
The Liberty restoration project | 147 |
Reconstructed ethnicity tourism and cultural identity in Third World communities | 158 |
The Locke case | 172 |
Spectacles | 230 |
The future of ritual | 255 |
The Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC | 280 |
misplaced traditions and the new folkurban continuum | 283 |
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The desire to be postmodern | 183 |
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Sida 15 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table — that's the end.
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Bibliografisk information
| Titel | Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers, Dean MacCannell Sociology / Cultural Studies |
| Författare | Dean MacCannell |
| Utgåva | illustrerad, nytryck |
| Utgivare | Psychology Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415056934, 9780415056939 |
| Längd | 346 sidor |
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