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This introductory textbook familiarizes students with ideas of key thinkers and perspectives related to postmodern thought and everyday life. The book is unique in that it offers selections from key passages of works of important thinkers as well as from some of the author's own publications that serve as examples of how to interpret various aspects of culture. The book draws in readers with its engaging and conversational style and use of cases, illustrations and photographs, including fun discussions on everyday life under pandemic restrictions. This is a must read for students taking courses in sociology, cultural anthropology, culture and media studies, linguistics, social philosophy, and for specific courses on postmodernism.
Semiotics --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Mass communications --- etnologie --- sociologie --- communicatie --- cultuur --- semiotiek --- Culture. --- Communication. --- Sociology --- Ethnology. --- Semiotics. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Philosophy of Sociology. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Philosophy.
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Written in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The book discusses topics such as the nature of tourism, different kinds of tourists, the role that myths play in tourism, gratifications from tourism, and travel as a means of personal transformation. It also deals with ocean cruising and considers the notion that cruises are boring, social class and cruising, cruising and addiction, and cruising and the psyche.
Ocean travel. --- Tourism. --- Man-woman relationships --- Romance fiction --- Sailing
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This introductory textbook familiarizes students with ideas of key thinkers and perspectives related to postmodern thought and everyday life. The book is unique in that it offers selections from key passages of works of important thinkers as well as from some of the author's own publications that serve as examples of how to interpret various aspects of culture. The book draws in readers with its engaging and conversational style and use of cases, illustrations and photographs, including fun discussions on everyday life under pandemic restrictions. This is a must read for students taking courses in sociology, cultural anthropology, culture and media studies, linguistics, social philosophy, and for specific courses on postmodernism.
Popular culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies --- Culture. --- Communication. --- Sociology --- Ethnology. --- Semiotics. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Philosophy of Sociology. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Social aspects
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