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The Tourist

by Dean MacCannell
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Synopsis

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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Book Details

Published
October 1, 2013
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Pages
231
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780520280007

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