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Tourism, Magic and Modernity : Cultivating the Human Garden / David Picard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropology ; 32Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857452016
  • 9780857452023
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/819 22/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. Penguins in the Paris Underground -- Part I. Aesthetic Transfigurations -- Chapter 1. Tourism and Magic -- Chapter 2. Creole Beautiful -- Chapter 3. Cultivating Society as a Human Garden -- Part II. The Hospitality of the Garden -- Chapter 4. Hospitality and Love -- Chapter 5. Bougainvilleas at the Riverside -- Chapter 6. Poachers in the Coral Garden -- Part III. Cultivating the Human Garden -- Chapter 7. History as an Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Chapter 8. Towards a Global Gardening State -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, 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 Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. Penguins in the Paris Underground -- Part I. Aesthetic Transfigurations -- Chapter 1. Tourism and Magic -- Chapter 2. Creole Beautiful -- Chapter 3. Cultivating Society as a Human Garden -- Part II. The Hospitality of the Garden -- Chapter 4. Hospitality and Love -- Chapter 5. Bougainvilleas at the Riverside -- Chapter 6. Poachers in the Coral Garden -- Part III. Cultivating the Human Garden -- Chapter 7. History as an Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Chapter 8. Towards a Global Gardening State -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, 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 Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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