The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Spiral-Bound | August 31, 2013
Dean Maccannell
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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
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In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel.
In The Tourist—now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis—the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.
Publisher: University of California Press
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 297 pages
ISBN-10: 0520280008
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
"The Tourist is one of those books that can be best enjoyed for its heuristic value, for the questions it raises as much as for the answers it offers."
-New York Times
Dean MacCannell is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Empty Meeting Grounds (1992) and The Time of the Sign (1982).
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