Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden

by David Picard

Book Overview

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La R union, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La R union, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782383212
• ISBN13: 9781782383215
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"