Displacing Desire
Travel and Popular Culture in China
Will be published approx. on 31. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8248-3071-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
17 illustrations, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-3071-7 (9780824830717)
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Person
Beth E. Notar is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.