| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) |
| Series |
Tourism & Cultural Change S., No. 8 |
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Tourism & Cultural Change S., No. 8
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| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgements; The Contributors; Chapter 1 Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change; Chapter 2 La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival; Chapter 3 Gardening the Past and Being in the World: A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion; Chapter 4 Becoming All Indian: Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival; Chapter 5 The 'Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets': Celebration, Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival |
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Chapter 6 The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide FootballChapter 7 'Days of Radunica': A Street Festival in the Croatian Town of Split; Chapter 8 Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals, Tourism and the Complexities of Performing Culture; Chapter 9 Creating the 'Rainbow Nation': The National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa; Chapter 10 Kyrgyzstan' |
| Summary |
Explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Culture and tourism.
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Festivals.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Culture and tourism
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Festivals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robinson, Mike
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| ISBN |
9781845410490 |
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1845410491 |
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