| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Series |
Tourism and Cultural Change
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Tourism and cultural change ; 44.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero -- Galicia's Finisterre and coast of death / Nieves Herrero -- At the end of the road : reflections on Finisterre, Land's End, France / Charles Menzies -- Land's End, Cornwall, England / Michael Ireland -- Pilgrimage to the edge : Lough Derg and the moral geography of Europe and Ireland / Lawrence J. Taylor with Maeve Hickey -- North Cape : in the land of the midnight sun / Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen -- Where North America ends / Wayne Fife and Sharon R. Roseman -- Finis terrae : the end-of-the-world imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) / Laura M. Horlent and Mónica C. Salemme. |
| Summary |
This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land's End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-205) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Culture and tourism.
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Culture and tourism. |
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
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Sociology. |
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Anthropology. |
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Cultural studies. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Herrero, Nieves (Herrero Pérez)
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Roseman, Sharon R., 1963-
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| Other Form: |
184541523X |
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1845415221 |
| ISBN |
1845415248 (electronic book) |
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9781845415242 (electronic book) |
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9781845415259 |
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1845415256 |
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9781845415228 |
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9781845415235 |
| Standard No. |
10.21832/9781845415242 |
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