Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- I. Approach -- Landscape Performance Theory, an Introduction -- II. Visiting -- 1. Bouldering: Movements of the Unforetold -- 2. Climbing: Scenic-Obscenic Movement -- 3. Hiking: Self-World Transformations -- III. Moving On -- 4. Unwinding and Changing Course -- 5. The Spartanburg Coincidence -- Index
Summary
As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. By grounding a novel 'eco-semiotic' analysis in the lived reality of parkgoers, it forges surprising connections, assembling a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography
