{"product_id":"tourism-magic-and-modernity-cultivating-the-human-garden-new-directions-in-anthropology-32-9780857452016","title":"Tourism Magic and Modernity Cultivating the Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this ''human garden'' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of ''human flowers'', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe book demonstrates that the ethnographic genre can be effective in advancing a deeper, more thickly described account of tourism at the same time as tourism offers an advantageous lens through which to understand the cultural politics of globalization generally…Its greatest contribution would seem to be a new way of theorizing the complex conjunctions of nature and culture that so often orientalize host societies in tourism imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnals of Tourism Research\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003ci\u003eThese discrete, flowing narratives form the backdrop\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eto keenly insightful observations on the representation of this lush volcanic island as heritage\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003egarden, and of its ‘natives’ caught in a bind: suffering high levels of unemployment and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003einferior housing conditions, they at once seek the affirmation of being as French as their metropolitan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ecounterparts; yet perform as quaint and rustic folk to the tourist gaze. Hence, the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003econcept of ‘the human garden’.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCultural Geographies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t“\u003ci\u003eOverall, this is an easy and enjoyable book to read that provides\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ea rich set of both theoretical background and primary research findings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eon the impacts of tourism on local economies and societies.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe book nicely integrates theoretical concepts with ethnographic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003edata gathered through a longitudinal and systematic ethnographic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eresearch conducted by the book author himself. The book constitutes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ea very useful reading for researchers-academics, high level\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003estudents and professionals involved and interested in the measurement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand management of the socio-cultural impacts of tourism on\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003etourism destinations.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTourism Management\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003e...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of Tourism and Cultural Change\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"Picard re-thinks basic tourism theory through the lens of the garden as a metaphor and of magic as a guiding concept. Original, innovative, scholarly, often unsettling, and deeply ethnographic.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward M. Bruner\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Anthropology of Experience\u003c\/em\u003e(1986, ed. with Victor W. Turner) and \u003cem\u003eCulture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"... a brilliant reading of the key metaphors of 'magic', the 'garden', and 'paradise',... a rare, psychoanalytically informed examination of the intimate contours of tourist experience and the types of society it brings about in destinations.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDean MacCannell\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Davis. Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tourist\u003c\/em\u003e (1976) and \u003cem\u003eThe Ethics of Sightseeing\u003c\/em\u003e (2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ea very competently crafted book – the author should be congratulated…[a] wonderfully fluent, evocative writing style\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJan Harwell\u003c\/strong\u003e, Oxford Brookes University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eForeword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNelson Graburn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguins in the Paris Underground\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Aestetic Transfigurations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tourism and Magic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Creole Beautiful\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eCultivating Society as Human Garden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. The Hospitality of the Garden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eHospitality and Love\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bougainvilleas at the Riverside\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Poachers in the Coral Garden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. 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