Traveling Culture
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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.
Transformative Journeys
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Author : Cong Zhang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Transformative Journeys written by Cong Zhang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In the first part of the book, Cong Ellen Zhang considers the practical aspects of travel during the Song in the context of state mobilization of and assistance to government travelers, including the infrastructure of waterways and highways, the bureaucratic procedures entailed in official travel, and the means of transport and types of lodging. The second part of the book focuses on elite activities on the road, especially the elaborate farewell banquets, welcoming ceremonies, and visits to famous places. Zhang argues convincingly that abundant travel experience became integral to Song elite identity and status, greatly strengthening the social and cultural coherence of the practitioners. In promoting their experience of traveling across a large empire, Song elite men firmly established their position as the country’s political, social, and cultural leaders. The literary compositions and physical traces they left behind also formed an overlapping web of collective memories, continually enhancing local pride and defining the place of various localities in the cultural geography of the country. Transformative Journeys sheds new light on the nature of Chinese literati, their dominance of culture and society, and China’s social and cultural integration. Those interested in premodern China and travel literature will find a wealth of material previously unavailable to Western readers.
Deconstructing Travel
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Author : Arthur Asa Berger
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2004
Deconstructing Travel written by Arthur Asa Berger and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Arthur Asa Berger's Deconstructing Travel is an engaging look into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. Starting off with classical expeditions in mythology, history, and literatures, Berger explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations.
Travel Culture
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Author : Carol T. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1998-06-30
Travel Culture written by Carol T. Williams and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Travel has been defined as one of humankind's primary and universal activities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays calls attention to the extent to which travel and tourism have permeated our lives and our society. The contributors introduce a wide range of intellectual perspectives through which travel culture is defined. From classic literature to travel diaries, from commercial films to home photography, this study of travel culture includes both high and low art.
Touring Cultures
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Author : Chris Rojek
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1997
Touring Cultures written by Chris Rojek and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections between tourism and cultural change and the relevance of tourist experience to current theoretical debates on space, time and identity.
Travel Journalism
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Author : F. Hanusch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-29
Travel Journalism written by F. Hanusch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-29 with Social Science categories.
Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism practices. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly important field of journalism scholarship.
Japanese Tourism And Travel Culture
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Author : Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-11-27
Japanese Tourism And Travel Culture written by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-27 with Business & Economics categories.
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the search for authenticity and invention of tradition. Japanese people are one of the most widely travelling peoples in the world both historically and in contemporary times. What may be understood as incipient mass tourism started around the 17th century in various forms (including religious pilgrimages) long before it became a prevalent cultural phenomenon in the West. Within Asia, Japan has long remained the main tourist sending society since the beginning of the 20th century when it started colonising Asian countries. In 2005, some 17.8 million Japanese travelled overseas across Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and America. In recent times, however, tourist demands are fast growing in other Asian countries such as Korea and China. Japan is not only consuming other Asian societies and cultures, it is also being consumed by them in tourist contexts. This book considers the patterns of travelling of the Japanese, examining travel inside and outside the Japanese archipelago and how tourist demands inside influence and shape patterns of travel outside the country. Overall, this book draws important insights for understanding the phenomenon of tourism on the one hand and the nature of Japanese society and culture on the other.
Travel And Identity Studies In Literature Culture And Language
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Author : Jakub Lipski
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-02-19
Travel And Identity Studies In Literature Culture And Language written by Jakub Lipski and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.
Voyages And Visions
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Author : Jaś Elsner
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 1999
Voyages And Visions written by Jaś Elsner and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
German Travel Cultures
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Author : Rudy Koshar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-10
German Travel Cultures written by Rudy Koshar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Looks at the development and use of German guidebooks; " ... the first comprehensive discussion of the history of tourist guidebooks for any modern nation."--Page 4 of cover.