Festivals, tourism and social change : remaking worlds /
Contributor(s): Picard, David | Robinson, Mike
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Series: Tourism and cultural change ; 8.Publisher: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2006Description: ix, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781845410483; 9781845410483:; 1845410483 (hbk : alk. paper); 1845410475 (pbk : alk. paper); 9781845410483; 9781845410476; 9781845410490.Subject(s): Festivals![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Remaking worlds : festivals, tourism and change / David Picard and Mike Robinson -- La Cavalcata Sarda : performing identities in a contemporary Sardinian festival / Iride Azara and David Crouch -- Gardening the past and being in the world : a popular celebration of the abolition of slavery in La Réunion / David Picard -- Becoming all Indian : gauchos, Pachamama queens and tourists in the remaking of an Andean festival / Patricia Mathews-Salazar -- The "freedom of the slaves to walk the streets" : celebration, spontaneity and revelry versus logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival / Angela Burr -- The making of community identity through historic festive practice : the case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide football / Scott McCabe -- "Days of Radunica" : a street festival in the Croatian town of Split / Anka Misetic and Ines Sabotic -- Enhancing vitality or compromising integrity? Festivals, tourism and the complexities of performing culture / Melanie Smith and Kathryn Forest -- Creating the "rainbow nation" : the National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa / Sabine Marschall -- Kyrgyzstan's Manas epos millennium celebrations : post-colonial resurgence of Turkic culture and the marketing of cultural tourism / Karen Thompson ... [et al.] -- The Camp Oven Festival and Australian identity / Shirley Chappel and Gregory Loades -- Christmas markets in the Tyrolean Alps : representing regional traditions in a newly created world of Christmas / Oliver Haid -- The placeless festival : identity and place in the post-modern festival / Nicola E. MacLeod -- Gay and lesbian festivals : tourism in the change from politics to party / Howard L. Hughes -- Mobility, diaspora and the hybridisation of festivity : the case of the Edinburgh Mela / Elizabeth Carnegie and Melanie Smith -- Taking Québec City : protest, carnival and tourism at the Summit of the Americas / Kirsty Robertson.
This edited work explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis.