Einführung in die Tourismusethnologie
Instructors: Céline MolterShortname: Tourismusethnologie
Course No.: 07.798.070
Course Type: Proseminar
Requirements / organisational issues
regular participation, preparation of texts for group discussionsRecommended reading list
Lo¨fgren, Orvar, 1999. On Holiday : A History of Vacationing. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.Smith, Valene L., 2012. Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Contents
"Everyone travels, but no one wants to be a tourist. Tourists, those are the others" (Henning 1997, "Reiselust"). Tourism was long considered, not only in anthropology, a low form of travel, and places developed for tourism were not interesting for anthropological research. In the meantime, this has changed and tourism anthropology has become a broad field of research. In the seminar we will look at different theoretical perspectives on tourism and tourists: from tourism as a modern ritual, as a liminal break from everyday life (MacCannell 1999, Graburn 1983), to the "tourist gaze" (Urry 1990) and postmodern approaches that question the difference between anthropological and tourist travel (Crick 1985). Looking to the present, we ask what new challenges are emerging for tourism anthropology with the proliferation of digital social media and the experience of the pandemic.Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 04/22/2022 (Friday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 691 Kleiner Übungsraum 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 07/01/2022 (Friday) | 09:00 - 17:00 | 00 691 Kleiner Übungsraum 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 07/02/2022 (Saturday) | 10:00 - 16:00 | 00 691 Kleiner Übungsraum 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 07/08/2022 (Friday) | 09:00 - 17:00 | 00 691 Kleiner Übungsraum 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 07/09/2022 (Saturday) | 10:00 - 16:00 | 00 691 Kleiner Übungsraum 1111 - Hauptgebäude |