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Empty Meeting Grounds

Dean MacCannell
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      "Empty Meeting Grounds" examines some of the new cultural forms and community arrangements that accompany the development of global tourism. The book focuses on matters that had not yet become salient when the author was writing his acclaimed earlier book "The Tourist" (1976). In particular it examines the new stagings of primitivism' for tourists and the totemism of the postmodernite. The thesis of the book is that human kind has already arrived at the historical moment of the invention of a new kind of community, but that we are not yet capable of facing the implications of our collective invention. Will it be a synthesis of the positive human dimensions of so called primitive' existence and the beneficial elements of modern social systems and technologies? Or will it be the most repressive, alienated existence we have so far devised for ourselves? The book was written in the spirit of theoretical activism: speculating about the future that is grounded in the present. This book should be of interest to students of sociology and cultural studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dean MacCannell EAN: 9780415056939 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 476 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-08-06 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Cultural studies, Sociology, History

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      "Empty Meeting Grounds" examines some of the new cultural forms and community arrangements that accompany the development of global tourism. The book focuses on matters that had not yet become salient when the author was writing his acclaimed earlier book "The Tourist" (1976). In particular it examines the new stagings of primitivism' for tourists and the totemism of the postmodernite. The thesis of the book is that human kind has already arrived at the historical moment of the invention of a new kind of community, but that we are not yet capable of facing the implications of our collective invention. Will it be a synthesis of the positive human dimensions of so called primitive' existence and the beneficial elements of modern social systems and technologies? Or will it be the most repressive, alienated existence we have so far devised for ourselves? The book was written in the spirit of theoretical activism: speculating about the future that is grounded in the present. This book should be of interest to students of sociology and cultural studies.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dean MacCannell EAN: 9780415056939 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 476 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-08-06 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies, Sociology, History

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