'AUTHENTICITY' AND POST-MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF TOURIST(IC) EXPERIENCE (O 'autentycznosci' i ponowoczesnym rozumieniu doswiadczenia turystycznego)

• Authors: Zajas Pawel
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper offers an analysis of the contemporary touristic (in the sense of MacCannel, 1976) experience based on the accounts of South African travels published in the Polish press in the years 2000-2006. Considerations following thorough readings of travel accounts and the accompanying photographs complement the theoretical attempt to explain the authenticity of touristic experience made by MacCannel in his work viewed as a classic today. Since the solutions proposed by the American scholar are not sufficient, the argument is conducted here along the lines of the post-modern thinkers like Slavoj Zizek whose findings enable us to elucidate the contemporary touristic habitus to a more satisfactory level.

Keywords

EN

CONTEMPORARY TOURISTIC HABITUS; TOURISTIC EXPERIENCE; TRAVEL ACCOUNTS

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 4(112)
• Pages: 215-230
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zajas Pawel

• Pawel Zajas, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874, Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA055930