The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World

Informationen zum Autor Nieves Herrero is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research interests include cultural heritage, cultural tourism and gender studies. Sharon R. Roseman is Professor of Anthropology and Academic Editor of ISER Books at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada. She is editor of the European Anthropology in Translation book series (Berghahn Books). Klappentext This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. Zusammenfassung This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’.

Product details

• Authors: Nieves Herrero, Sharon R. Roseman
• Assisted by: Nieves Herrero (Editor), Sharon R. Roseman (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781845415228
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-522-8
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 208 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous