Festivals, tourism and social change : remaking worlds /

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Imprint:Clevedon ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2006.
Description:ix, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Tourism and cultural change ; 8
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6369426
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Other authors / contributors:Picard, David.
Robinson, Mike, 1960-
ISBN:1845410483 (hbk : alk. paper)
1845410475 (pbk : alk. paper)
1845410491 (ebook)
9781845410483
9781845410476
9781845410490
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change
  • 2. La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival
  • 3. Gardening the Past and Being in the World: A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion
  • 4. Becoming All Indian: Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival
  • 5. The 'Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets': Celebration, Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival
  • 6. The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
  • 7. 'Days of Radunica': A Street Festival in the Croatian Town of Split
  • 8. Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals, Tourism and the Complexities of Performing Culture
  • 9. Creating the 'Rainbow Nation': The National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa
  • 10. Kyrgyzstan's Manas Epos Millennium Celebrations: Post-Colonial Resurgence of Turkic Culture and the Marketing of Cultural Tourism
  • 11. The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity
  • 12. Christmas Markets in the Tyrolean Alps: Representing Regional Traditions in a Newly Created World of Christmas
  • 13. The Placeless Festival: Identity and Place in the Post-Modern Festival
  • 14. Gay and Lesbian Festivals: Tourism in the Change from Politics to Party
  • 15. Mobility, Diaspora and the Hybridisation of Festivity: The Case of the Edinburgh Mela
  • 16. Taking Quebec City: Protest, Carnival and Tourism at the Summit of the Americas