1st Edition

Being and Dwelling through Tourism An anthropological perspective

By Catherine Palmer Copyright 2018
184 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption. What is missing, however, is an overarching framework within which these valuable approaches can be located. This book offers one such framework using the concept of dwelling taken from Heidegger and Ingold as the starting point... Read more

Chapter 1 Being and Dwelling; Chapter 2 Sensuous Dwelling; Chapter 3 Material Dwelling; Chapter 4 Architectural Dwelling; Chapter 5 Earthly Dwelling; Chapter 6 Being, Dwelling and Thinking

Biography

Catherine Palmer, PhD, MA, BSc (Hons) is a social anthropologist at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the joint book series editor for the Routledge Advances in Tourism Anthropology. Her publications and research interests encompass identity, heritage and materiality; post-conflict / memorial landscapes; cultures of the coast / seaside; embodiment and the lived experience.