Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World
Edición de la obra Staging Tourism
| Autor | Jane C. Desmond |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University Of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | December 15, 2001 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 361 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226143767 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226143767 |
| OCLC | 40821028 |
| LCCN | 99018914 |
| Número de Cutter | D464s |
"From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, Staging Tourism analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies - how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches, and under what conditions - is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender, and cultural affiliation. These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted, and debated."--BOOK JACKET.