Author: MacCannell, Dean
Title: Empty Meeting Grounds : The Tourist Papers
Description: London / New York, Routledge, (1992). orig. boards. 22x14cm, xii,346 pp. Binding corner bumps, some binding & page-edge soil, Good+. ¶ Contents: Ex-Primitive & Postmodern: Cannibalism Today; Orange County, Yugoslavia; Postmodern Community Planning: Notes on the Homeless & Other Nomads; Nature Incorporated; Majority Discourse: White Culture; The Liberty Restoration Project; Reconstructed Ethnicity: Tourism & Cultural Identity in Third World Communities; The Locke Case; Postmodernization & its Discontents: The Desire to be Postmodern; Spectacles; The Future of Ritual; The Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C.; Afterword: Misplaced Traditions & the New 'Folk-Urban Continuum'.

Keywords: Cultural Relativism, Sociology, Global Tourism, Tourist Industry, Social History, Anthropology, Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Ethnicity