Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers

by Dean MacCannell

Overview

Empty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on 'Cannibal Tours', 'The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134933976
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/11/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	470 KB

About the Author

Dean MacCannell

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement, Introduction, Part 1: Ex-Primitive and Postmodern, 1. Cannibalism Today, 2. Orange County, Yugoslavia, 3. Postmodern Community Planning: Notes on the Homeless, 4. Nature Incorporated, Part 2: Majority Discourse, 5. White Culture, 6. The Liberty Restoration Project, 7. Reconstructed Ethnicity, 8. The Locke Case, Part 3: Postmodernization and its Discontents, 9. The Desire to be Postmodern, 10. Spectacles, 11. The Future of Ritual, 12. The Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., Afterword: The Tourist and the New 'Folk-Urban Continuum', Bibliography