Tourism

Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPrefaceJeremy BoissevainChapter 1. Grounded Tourists, Travelling TheorySimon Coleman and Mike CrangTHE PLACE OF NATUREChapter 2. Chapter 3. The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified LandscapeClaudia Bell and John LyallChapter 3. Making the Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand CanyonMark NeumannChapter 4. The Scottish Highlands as SpectacleFraser MacDonaldBACK TO THE CITYChapter 5. Acing Local: Two Performances in Northern ItalyPaola FilippucciChapter 6. "Cose Paesane": Enacting Ambivalent Identities in the Italian AlpsKeith RidlerChapter 7. Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the CityPenny TravlouChapter 8. Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End'John EadeDISTANCIATED PLACESChapter 9. Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central TurkeyHazel TuckerChapter 10. Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South DakotaEve MelzerChapter 11. Farming, Dreaming and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian UtopiaCharles Fruehling SpringwoodBRINGING IT ALL BACK HOMEChapter 12. The Power of Metaphors in Tourism TheoryDavid ChaneyChapter 13. Surrounded by Place: Embodied EncountersDavid CrouchReferencesIndex