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Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing
This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing written in French and Italian. Structured typologically, each chapter focuses on a typical activity that brings traveller-protagonists into contact with other people. Drawing on literary critical studies of travel writing, sociological and anthropological approaches to tourism, as well as research in French and Italian area studies, ‘Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing’ locates the concept of encounter within the context of modern tourism.
Semiotics at the Circus
Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resource...
Anthropology as a Driver for Tourism Research
This book was inspired by the strongly increasing cross-fertilization between anthropological research and tourism studies. It provides a rich and comprehensive overview of key topics within contemporary international research related to the anthropology of tourism, including theoretical and methodological issues, field studies, ethnographic museum policy and the anthropological contributions to tourism policy research and cultural tourism studies. These contents make the book suitable for researchers, lecturers and students in the fields of anthropology and tourism, as well as for policymakers and practitioners working in the culture and museum sectors, the tourism industry and government service. Thanks to the special attention the editors paid to unlocking the texts for interested laymen, culture seekers and travel lovers will also appreciate the wealth of observations, descriptions and analyses that will undoubtedly broaden their outlook on people and places around the globe.
Reuse Value
This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and re-presentation in the Western world. All of these pr...
Circus as Multimodal Discourse
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Sikhs Across Borders
Explores Sikh praxis and self-representation across geopolitical borders, with a focus on empirical research on Sikhs in Europe
The Beautiful Country
Every year, Italy swells with millions of tourists who infuse the economy with billions of dollars and almost outnumber Italians themselves. In fact, Italy has been a model tourist destination for longer than it has been a modern state.The Beautiful Country explores the enduring popularity of destination Italy, and its role in the development of the global mass tourism industry. Stephanie Malia Hom tracks the evolution of this particular touristic imaginary through texts, practices, and spaces, beginning with the guidebooks that frame Italy as an idealized land of leisure and finishing with destination Italy's replication around the world. Today, more tourists encounter Italy through places like Las Vegas's The Venetian Hotel and Casino or Dubai's Mercato shopping mall than experience the country in Italy itself. Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis,The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount role in the creation of modern mass tourism.
The End of the Circus
Acknowledgements -- 1. Overture: Themes and Variations -- Introduction -- Whence and wither the 'traditional' circus? -- 'Death to the circus' -- Clowns on the wane -- The body: from ritual to spectacle -- The human tragedy: "You! Wretched Gypsies!" -- 2. First Movement, Andante Sostenuto: The Time of the Gypsies -- Who are the Gypsies? -- Where do Gypsies come from? -- Contrapuntal development #1 -- Being a Gypsy: the bane or bliss of difference -- A deeper time perspective -- The circus enters history: Was Philip Astley a Gypsy? -- The art of survival -- Contrapuntal development #2: What is a name? -- Our inner Gypsy -- An ode to resilience -- On the flipside -- The evolution of space, tim...
Tourism and Architectural Simulacra
Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that have suggested reinvented relationships with their original architectural inspirations. Copies, reinterpretations, and simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular tourist attractions in the world. Some reinterpret archetypes such as the ancient palace, the Renaissance villa, or the Mediterranean village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias such as Shangri-La, Eden, or Paradise. Replicas – duplitecture – and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists, as merely inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic, an...
Il profeta
Dopo alcuni anni trascorsi in terra straniera, Almustafa (ovvero l&'eletto di Dio), sente che è giunto il momento di fare ritorno all&'isola nativa. In procinto di salpare egli affida al popolo della città di Orphalese un prezioso testamento spirituale: una serie di riposte intorno ai grandi temi della vita e della morte, dell&'amore e della fede, del bene e del male. Pubblicato a New York nel 1923, &"Il Profeta&" viene subito accolto con grande favore di pubblico soprattutto presso i giovani, i quali vedono in Gibran un maestro di saggezza. A distanza di tanti anni l&'interesse è rimasto immutato: silloge che abbraccia i problemi fondamentali dell&'esistenza, il capolavoro del poeta libanese è anche libro di notevole fascino. Il clima sospeso e rarefatto, il ritmo incantatorio di una scrittura lirica di presa immediata, incisiva e visionaria, l&'incontro tra due opposte culture, l&'orientale e l&'occidentale, sono la cifra di uno stile inconfondibile.
