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Tourist. A New Theory of the Leisure Class

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Tourist. A New Theory of the Leisure Class
14.99 €
In his work, Dean McCanell, professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Davis, explores notions of authenticity, elitism, and popular culture related to the construction of social reality around the phenomenon of tourism that took over the Western world in the second half of the twentieth century. McCanell takes an interest in the relationship between individual behavior and social relations, studying "the behavior of tourists and the places they travel to better understand the hidden structures and meanings of life at the end of the modern era." The idea of The Tourist originated and developed within sociology, but like the phenomenon it studies, the book has left its native discipline and spread far beyond its boundaries. The book was first published in 1976 and, together with Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers (1992), a collection of essays that established McCanell's reputation as an outstanding researcher on tourism, remains invaluable to scholars and interested observers alike.
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