From production to consumption
Subtitle: transformation of rural communities
By: edited by Hana Horáková and Andrea Boscoboinik
Series: Freiburger sozialanthropologische Studien -- Bd. 35 = -- Freiburg studies in social anthropologie = -- Etudes d'anthropologie sociale de l'Université de Fribourg; Freiburger sozialanthropologische Studien -- Bd. 35.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Zurich; Müster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783643801241
Subjects: Tourism; Congresses; Rural tourism; Rural conditions; Rural development; Rural population
Other titles: Transformation of rural communities
Description: "Up to a few decades ago in the anthropology of tourism was regarded as a way to become involved in effortless researches in pleasant settings. Moreover, tourism was portrayed as a sinister carrier of westernization, thus as a menace to the subaltern societies that had to endure it. Nowadays anthropological studies on tourism have established their own legitimacy due also to the considerable socioeconomic significance of tourism in this age of hectic global mobility. This book points up new and important research perspectives showing the impact of tourism on the rural world. The articles presented are a major and groundbreaking contribution to the analysis of the new rurality in global society"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Proceedings of a workshop entitled 'Transformation of Rural Communities in Europe: from Production to Consumption' held at the 11th EASA Biennial  conference in Maynooth, Ireland between 24 and 27 August, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Contested rurality : rural areas in the post-industrial age / Hana Horáková, Andrea Boscoboinik; title: Reconstructing rural space through international tourism : Czech "Dutch villages" / Hana Horáková; title: Weekend trips, second homes and new social realities in the Catalan Pyrenees / Camila del Mármol; title: Where are the tourists? : shifting production, changing localities in a Szekler village / Árapád Töhötöm Szabó; title: Lagging behind : the reshaping of rurality and the quest for development on the Northwest Greek frontier / Antonio Maria Pusceddu; title: Eurostyle : the transformation of a Moldovan trans-national family and its village / Francesco Vietti; title: Euro-chic, benign cosmopolitanism and wine tourism in Martinborough, New Zealand / Peter J. Howland; title: Village fairs and rural adventure tours in Norway / Anne Kathrine Larsen; title: Glamping and rural imaginary / Andrea Boscoboinik, Eric Bourquard; title: "Neo-productivism", farm families and technologies in Dundee, Scotland, UK / Claire Perkins.