The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
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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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
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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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

by Dean MacCannell
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

by Dean MacCannell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520280007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 08/31/2013
Edition description: First Edition, With a New Introduction
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dean MacCannell is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Empty Meeting Grounds (1992) and The Time of the Sign (1982).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lucy Lippard
The Tourist in 2013
Introduction to the 1989 Edition
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences
2. Sightseeing and Social Structure
3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure
4. The Other Attractions
5. Staged Authenticity
6. A Semiotic of Attraction
7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers
8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious
9. On Theory, Methods, and Application

Epilogue
Notes
Index
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