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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

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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 Tourist-now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis-the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Date
31 August 2013
Pages
280
ISBN
9780520280007

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 Tourist-now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis-the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Date
31 August 2013
Pages
280
ISBN
9780520280007