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Tourism, magic, and modernity : cultivating the human garden / by David Picard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picard, David.
- Series:
- New directions in anthropology.
- New directions in anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Anthropological aspects.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Social aspects.
- Culture and tourism.
- Magic--Social aspects.
- Magic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 pa
- Contents:
- Aesthetic transfigurations
- The hospitality of the garden
- Cultivating the human garden.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-237-X
- 1-78238-322-0
- 1-283-32643-4
- 9786613326430
- 0-85745-201-0
- OCLC:
- 769188695
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