Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisur...
Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisure time for international travel. This edition includes a new foreword by Lucy R. Lippard and a new afterword by the author.
作者简介
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Dean MacCannell is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Empty Meeting Grounds (1992) and The Time of the Sign (1982).
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1Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences 17
近些年“旅行文化”(traveling culture)更成新宠,仿佛哲人之顿悟,历史之造化,传统之“发明”。旅行文化很快发烧发热。“东方主义”者萨伊德(Said, E.)述“旅行理论”(traveling theory),把它当作对“权利话语”、对“后殖民主义俗世批判”的一种锐器;克里福德(Clifford, J.)从人类学批评史的角度探讨旅行文化中“旅行/居住”的传统表述与文化认同关系;普拉特(Pratt, M. L.)则把现代旅行文化置于殖民者与殖民地的“边界地带”,以凸显“霸权与反霸权”的抗争主题;罗杰克和厄里(Rojek and Urry)的“旅行文化”却强调现代旅游的社会背景与属性的互动:移动性、文化与物质之间的相关与变迁关系…… (查看原文)
1 有用 疾走 2013-02-14 10:20:22
Marx和Hegel开始那里比较难读懂 后面顺了很多
0 有用 peyote 2022-08-01 23:21:17
旅行的意义就是发现真正的他者,并与其构建起共同体。作者作为人类学家,但厌恶理论。在不进行结构人类学那套范式的前提下,开展自己的观察、分析和讨论,结果是作者在每次触及(后)现代理论时,开始有意识的回缩。导致的问题是本来可以更精彩,但估计太多了,翻到限制前行。
1 有用 宥_ 2018-05-10 18:07:43
思路清晰,语言也不艰涩。#论旅行的意义#
0 有用 寂為樂 2019-05-13 15:16:01
Classic.