Tourism, magic and modernity : cultivating the human garden /

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demo...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Picard, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Series:	New directions in anthropology ; v. 32.
Subjects:	Tourism > Social aspects. Culture and tourism. Magic > Social aspects. Anthropology > Social aspects.