In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Touristnow with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysisthe author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
University of California Press
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University of California Press
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
- UPC:
- 9780520280007
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 8/31/2013
- Release Date:
- 8/31/2013
- Author:
- MacCannell, Dean
- Language:
- English: Published; English: Original Language; English
- Edition:
- First Edition, With a New Introduction
- Pages:
- 280
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