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Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World
Jane C. Desmond
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Description for Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World
Paperback. Provides an account of US tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to 1999. The book juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism", suggesting that the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the 19th century. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, this book analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies - how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches and under what conditions - is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender and cultural affiliation. These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted and debated. Gathering together ... Read more
From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, this book analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies - how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches and under what conditions - is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender and cultural affiliation. These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted and debated. Gathering together ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226143767
SKU
V9780226143767
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99-50
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