ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Liminality, Carnivalesque, Upper Class
25 Mar 2014
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Culture analysis of tourism: cultural beliefs, assumptions and practices shape the ways we interpret experience. Theorizing tourism: theory: thinking process (analysis and synthesis, theorizing tourists, motivations for travel, social-spatial practices, role of difference and inequality, role of the body and senses, differentiation of tourists, consumption, cultural context and past. What we look at today : tourism as a secular ritual for the tourists, concepts and elements of theory, symbolic inversions, anti-structure, liminality, rites of passage, communitas, carnivalesque. Structured practices, and are embedded in meaning: rites of passage (recreates the self) specific ritual that marks a transition in the individual example: wedding, graduation, sacred journey (transformation of self) The ritual process in terms of rites of passage: anthropologist victor turner, separation going other places to do a rites of passage, liminal state (anti-structure/communitas) liminality= the state of being in- between. For example, a space without adult supervision is an anti-structure stage: re-integration.
