Tourism (eBook)

Mike Crang is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Durham.

Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Preface
Jeremy Boissevain

Chapter 1. Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory
Simon Coleman and Mike Crang

THE PLACE OF NATURE

Chapter 2. Chapter 3. The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape
Claudia Bell and John Lyall

Chapter 3. Making the Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon
Mark Neumann

Chapter 4. The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle
Fraser MacDonald

BACK TO THE CITY

Chapter 5. Acing Local: Two Performances in Northern Italy
Paola Filippucci

Chapter 6. "Cose Paesane": Enacting Ambivalent Identities in the Italian Alps
Keith Ridler

Chapter 7. Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the City
Penny Travlou

Chapter 8. Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End'
John Eade

DISTANCIATED PLACES

Chapter 9. Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey
Hazel Tucker

Chapter 10. Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota
Eve Melzer

Chapter 11. Farming, Dreaming and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia
Charles Fruehling Springwood

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

Chapter 12. The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory
David Chaney

Chapter 13. Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters
David Crouch

References
Index