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Cultural Excursions
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Author : Neil Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-10-15
Cultural Excursions written by Neil Harris and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
Selected essays written over a period of fifteen years.
Cultural Excursions
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Author : Neil Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-10-15
Cultural Excursions written by Neil Harris and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three general sections: the first treats the history of cultural institutions, highlighting the role of museums; the second section focuses on some literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial responses to the new mass culture; and the final group of essays explores the social history of art and architecture. Throughout Harris's diverse writings certain themes recur—the redefining of boundaries between high art and popular culture, the relationship between public taste and technological change, and the very notion of what constitutes a shared social experience. Harris's pioneering work has broadened the field of cultural history and encouraged whole new areas of inquiry. Cultural Excursions will be useful for those in American and culture studies, as well as for the general reader trying to make sense of the culture in which we live.
The Legacy Of The Grand Tour
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Author : Lisa Colletta
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-12-09
The Legacy Of The Grand Tour written by Lisa Colletta and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its aristocratic origins and the permutations of sentimental and romantic travel to the age of tourism and globalization, the Grand Tour still influences the destinations tourists choose and shapes the ideas of culture and sophistication that surround the act of travel. The essays in this collection examine a wide variety of literature—travel, memoir, and fiction—and explore the ways travel and ideas of “culture” have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour in the 18th century. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.
Culture On Tour
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Author : Edward M. Bruner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005
Culture On Tour written by Edward M. Bruner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not traditional, but instead had been set up specifically for tourists. His efforts to induce reflexivity led to conflict with the tour company, which wanted the displays to be viewed as replicas of culture and to remain unexamined. Although Bruner was eventually fired, the experience became part of a sustained exploration of tourist performances, narratives, and practices. Synthesizing more than twenty years of research in cultural tourism, Culture on Tour analyzes a remarkable variety of tourist productions, ranging from safari excursions in Kenya and dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois. Bruner examines each site in all its particularity, taking account of global and local factors, as well as the multiple perspectives of the various actors—the tourists, the producers, the locals, and even the anthropologist himself. The collection will be essential to those in the field as well as to readers interested in globalization and travel.
The Tour De France
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Author : Christopher S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-07-17
The Tour De France written by Christopher S. Thompson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-17 with History categories.
"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate tabula rasa into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and self-interest."—Robert A. Nye, author of Crime, Madness, & Politics in Modern France and Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France "A true gem of a book. A terrific scholar and an engaging writer."—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist and Empty Meeting Grounds "A major new interpretation of France's most famous sporting event. For the first time the Tour de France has been fully and carefully placed within the wider context of French history."—Richard Holt, author of Sport and Society in Modern France and Sport and the British "Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race—its history, its participants and its meaning—firmly in its shifting national and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that deserves to find a broad general readership."—Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Native Tours
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Author : Erve Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 2009-07-20
Native Tours written by Erve Chambers and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-20 with Business & Economics categories.
The original edition of Native Tours provided a much-needed overview and analysis of anthropologys contributions to tourism as an emerging field of study. Such a cultural perspective illuminated key ideas surrounding worldwide host-guest relationships and the impacts, both negative and positive, of tourism as one of the worlds largest industries. Applying a characteristically uncluttered, authoritative writing style alongside an exceptional command of the relevant literature, Chambers updates, refines, and extends the original concise work. He identifies new or refashioned trends such as green tourism, community-based tourism, heritage and cultural tourism, and domestic tourism in developing nations, as well as discusses how local prejudices influence and often distort views of tourism. Three detailed case studies originating in the American Southwest, the Tirolean Alps, and Belize illustrate the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental costs and benefits of tourism.
Excursions
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Author : Michael Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-24
Excursions written by Michael Jackson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-24 with History categories.
DIVPhilosophical meditations on a series of journeys the author has taken to various places around the world./div
Culture On Tour
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Author : Edward M. Bruner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005
Culture On Tour written by Edward M. Bruner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Analysing a variety of tourist productions, ranging from dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois, Bruner considers the diverse perspectives of various actors, including the tourists, the producers, the natives & the anthropologist himself.
Art Museums Plus
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Author : Traute M. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2009
Art Museums Plus written by Traute M. Marshall and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
The Evolution Of The Grand Tour
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Author : Edward Chaney
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
The Evolution Of The Grand Tour written by Edward Chaney and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Americans categories.
Unlike other studies of the Grand Tour, this book deals not so much with the fully-fledged 18th-century phenomenon, but rather with the 16th and 17th centuries and the way in which the English became conscious of the Italian Renaissance and thereby discovered classical antiquity itself. Revised essays document the lives and travels of the personalities who contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. An epilogue pays tribute to Sir Harold Acton (1904-1994). Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR