Tourism, magic and modernity
cultivating the human garden
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Word Count
47,250 words, Guess
Page Count
189 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25120218M
- ISBN-139780857452016
- ISBN-100857452010
- OCLC Control Number691927656
- OCLC Control Numbertourismmagicmode0000pica
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2010048095
Classifications
- DDC306.4/819
- LCCG155.A1 P517 2011
Description
"Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- New directions in anthropology -- v. 32
Other Editions
- Tourism, magic and modernity: cultivating the human garden
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