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Tourism, Magic and Modernity
- Cultivating the Human Garden
Engelsk Hardback
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- Cultivating the Human Garden
Engelsk Hardback

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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 paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this ''human garden'' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of ''human flowers'', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
206
ISBN-13:
9780857452016
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0857452010
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2011
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
158mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2011
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