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Tourism, magic and modernity : cultivating the human garden / David Picard.

By:

Picard, David [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New directions in anthropology ; v. 32.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011Description: xvi, 189 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0857452010
9780857452016

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.4819 22

LOC classification:

G155.A1 P517 2011

Contents:

Introduction. Penguins in the Paris underground -- Tourism and magic -- Creole beautiful -- Cultivating society as a human garden -- Hospitality and love -- Bougainvilleas at the riverside -- Poachers in the coral garden -- History as an aesthetics of everyday life -- Towards a global gardening state.

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."--P. [4] of cover.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index.

"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."--P. [4] of cover.

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