Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers

by Dean MacCannell

Book Overview

Empty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on Cannibal Tours', The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415056934
• ISBN13: 9780415056939
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"