Dean MacCannell

The Tourist

A New Theory of the Leisure Class. Foreword by Lucy R. Lippard, Epilogue by the author

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. The text brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel in the postindustrial age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 136mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780520218925
• ISBN-10: 0520218922
• Artikelnr.: 22089208

Autorenporträt

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).