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Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden Contributor(s): Picard, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857452010 ISBN-13: 9780857452016 Publisher: Berghahn Books
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2011 Click for more in this series: New Directions in Anthropology |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Travel |
Dewey: 306.481 |
LCCN: 2010048095 |
Series: New Directions in Anthropology |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.98 lbs) 206 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 50 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Picard, David: - David Picard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) at New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of La Reunion, Indian Ocean and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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