Displacing Desire

Travel and Popular Culture in China

Beth E. Notar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2006
University of Hawai'i Press (Verlag)
978-0-8248-3071-7 (ISBN)

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Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, this book explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.

Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.

Beth E. Notar is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2007
Zusatzinfo	17 illustrations, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Honolulu, HI
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	351 g
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Asien ► China
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8248-3071-7 / 0824830717
ISBN-13	978-0-8248-3071-7 / 9780824830717
Zustand	Neuware