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FESTIVALS, TOURISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Remaking Worlds
Edited by
David Picard and Mike Robinson
ISBN: 1-84541-048-3
This book 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, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economic and political contexts that they always operate in and respond to - contexts that are both historical and modern at the same time. Tourism is bound closely together with such contexts; feeding and challenging festivals with audiences that are increasingly transient and transnational. Tourism interrogates notions of ritual and tradition, shapes new spaces and creates, and renews, relationships between participants and observers. No longer can we dismiss tourists simply as value neutral and crass consumers of spectacle, nor tourism as some inevitable commercial force. Tourism is increasingly complicit in the festival processes of re-invention, and in forming new patterns of social existence.
"A sophisticated nuanced exploration of tourist festivals in a global world. Festivals are seen as encapsulations of peak experiences, as times when societies become most alive, when they express and construct key values and relationships. A major contribution."
Edward M. Bruner
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Illinois, USA
Contents
Acknowledgements
The Contributors
1 Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change
David Picard and Mike Robinson
2 La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival
Iride Azara and David Crouch
3 Gardening the Past and Being in the World: A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion
David Picard
4 Becoming All Indian: Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival
Patricia Mathews-Salazar
5 The 'Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets': Celebration, Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival
Angela Burr
6 The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
Scott McCabe
7 'Days of Radunica': A Street Festival in the Croatian Town of Split
Anka Misetic and Ines Sabotic
8 Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals, Tourism and the Complexities of Performing Culture
Melanie Smith and Kathryn Forest
9 Creating the 'Rainbow Nation': The National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa
Sabine Marschall
10 Kyrgyzstan's Manas Epos Millennium Celebrations: Post-Colonial Resurgence of Turkic Culture and the Marketing of Cultural Tourism
Karen Thompson, Peter Schofield, Nicola Foster and Gulnara Bakieva
11 The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity
Shirley Chappel and Gregory Loades
12 Christmas Markets in the Tyrolean Alps: Representing Regional Traditions in a Newly Created World of Christmas
Oliver Haid
13 The Placeless Festival: Identity and Place in the Post-Modern Festival
Nicola E. MacLeod
14 Gay and Lesbian Festivals: Tourism in the Change from Politics to Party
Howard L. Hughes
15 Mobility, Diaspora and the Hybridisation of Festivity: The Case of the Edinburgh Mela
Elizabeth Carnegie and Melanie Smith
16 Taking Quebec City: Protest, Carnival and Tourism at the Summit of the Americas
Kirsty Robertson
Index
The book can be ordered via Multilingual Matters Ltd/ Channel View Publications at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?K=510000001238560&cat=1300&sort=sort_title&ds=tourism&m=11&dc=68
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Format: Paperback ISBN: 1-84541-047-5
Publication date: 12 Oct 2006 13 Digit ISBN: 9781845410476
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