Displacing Desire
Travel and Popular Culture in China
Seiten
2006
University of Hawai'i Press (Verlag)
978-0-8248-3071-7 (ISBN)
University of Hawai'i Press (Verlag)
978-0-8248-3071-7 (ISBN)
Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, this book explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.
Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.
Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.
Beth E. Notar is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 17 illustrations, 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Honolulu, HI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 351 g |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Asien ► China |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8248-3071-7 / 0824830717 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8248-3071-7 / 9780824830717 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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