Festivals, tourism and social change : remaking worlds

Picard, David. (Added Author). Robinson, Mike, 1960- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1845410491 (ebook)
ISBN: 1845410475 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1845410483 (hbk : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781845410490
ISBN: 9781845410476
ISBN: 9781845410483
Physical Description: ix, 293 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2006.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Remaking worlds : festivals, tourism and change / David Picard and Mike Robinson -- 2. La Cavalcata Sarda : performing identities in a contemporary Sardinian festival / Iride Azara and David Crouch -- 3. Gardening the past and being in the world : a popular celebration of the abolition of slavery in La Reunion / David Picard -- 4. Becoming all Indian : Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and tourists in the remaking of an Andean festival / Patricia Mathews-Salazar -- 5. The 'freedom of the slaves to walk the streets' : celebration, spontaneity and revelry versus logistics at the Notting Hill carnival / Angela Burr -- 6. The making of community identity through historic festive practice : the case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide football / Scott McCabe -- 7. 'Days of Radunica' : a street festival in the Croatian town of Split / Anka Misetic and Ines Sabotic -- 8. Enhancing vitality or compromising integrity? : festivals, tourism and the complexities of performing culture / Melanie Smith and Kathryn Forest -- 9. Creating the 'rainbow nation' : the National Women's Art Festival in Durban, South Africa / Sabine Marschall -- 10. Kyrgyzstan's Manas Epos millennium celebrations : post-colonial resurgence of Turkic culture and the marketing of cultural tourism / Karen Thompson, Peter Schofield, Nicola Foster and Gulnara Bakieva -- 11. The camp oven festival and Australian identity / Shirley Chappel and Gregory Loades -- 12. Christmas markets in the Tyrolean Alps : representing regional traditions in a newly created world of Christmas / Oliver Haid -- 13. The placeless festival : identity and place in the post-modern festival / Nicola E. MacLeod -- 14. Gay and lesbian festivals : tourism in the change from politics to party / Howard L. Hughes -- 15. Mobility, diaspora and the hybridisation of festivity : the case of the Edinburgh Mela / Elizabeth Carnegie and Melanie Smith -- 16. Taking Quebec City : protest, carnival and tourism at the summit of the Americas / Kirsty Robertson.