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The ethics of sightseeing / Dean MacCannell.
| Author/creator | MacCannell, Dean |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011. |
| Description | xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010040365 |
| ISBN | 9780520257825 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520257820 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520257832 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520257839 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | G155.A1 M15 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |