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The book explores emerging themes, concepts, and issues in ethnic
tourism, through examination of theoretical underpinnings and
empirical research in various ethnic destinations worldwide. It
encapsulates cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions of
ethnic tourism, which is a force of change in many ethnic
communities and suggests means through which local benefits can be
enhanced and costs reduced. This book presents a range of case
studies from diverse well-known ethnic destinations which reveal
the various outcomes and changes engendered by ethnic tourism, such
as the commodification of ethnic culture, the exploitation of
minority peoples by outsiders, and the impact of wider forces of
modernization and national integration policies. It summarizes what
has been done so far and suggests initiatives to increase the
contribution of tourism to the economic development and quality of
life of ethnic communities. It brings together a diversity of
perspectives that are not currently readily available in one
location. The book will appeal to students, and scholars interested
in social sciences, tourism studies, geography, anthropology,
sociology and economics, as well as in applied disciplines such as
planning. It addresses academic and professional audiences that are
interested in tourism and its consequences, as well as those who
are interested in ethnic, including indigenous peoples, and their
circumstances.
The book explores emerging themes, concepts, and issues in ethnic
tourism, through examination of theoretical underpinnings and
empirical research in various ethnic destinations worldwide. It
encapsulates cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions of
ethnic tourism, which is a force of change in many ethnic
communities and suggests means through which local benefits can be
enhanced and costs reduced. This book presents a range of case
studies from diverse well-known ethnic destinations which reveal
the various outcomes and changes engendered by ethnic tourism, such
as the commodification of ethnic culture, the exploitation of
minority peoples by outsiders, and the impact of wider forces of
modernization and national integration policies. It summarizes what
has been done so far and suggests initiatives to increase the
contribution of tourism to the economic development and quality of
life of ethnic communities. It brings together a diversity of
perspectives that are not currently readily available in one
location. The book will appeal to students, and scholars interested
in social sciences, tourism studies, geography, anthropology,
sociology and economics, as well as in applied disciplines such as
planning. It addresses academic and professional audiences that are
interested in tourism and its consequences, as well as those who
are interested in ethnic, including indigenous peoples, and their
circumstances.
Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many
countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to
assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while
ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social
benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures,
ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is
growing concern in many places about how to balance the use of
ethnicity as a tourist attraction with the protection of minority
cultures and the promotion of ethnic pride. Despite the fact that a
substantial literature is devoted to the impacts of ethnic tourism,
little research has been done on how to plan ethnic tourism
attractions or to manage community impacts of tourism. This book
addresses the need for more research on planning for ethnic tourism
by exploring the status and enhancement of planning strategies for
ethnic tourism development. The book develops the case of a
well-known ethnic tourist destination in China -Xishuangbanna,
Yunnan. It analyzes how ethnic tourism has been planned and
developed at the study site and examines associated socio-cultural
and planning issues. The authors evaluate the perspectives of four
key stakeholder groups (the government, tourism entrepreneurs,
ethnic minorities and tourists) on ethnic tourism through on-site
observation, interviews with government officials, planners and
tourism entrepreneurs, surveys of tourists and ethnic minority
people, and evaluation of government policies, plans and
statistics. This book is unique in its emphasis on planning and in
its focus on China, rapidly emerging as a major player in tourism,
with applications for tourism around the world.
Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many
countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to
assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while
ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social
benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures,
ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is
growing concern in many places about how to balance the use of
ethnicity as a tourist attraction with the protection of minority
cultures and the promotion of ethnic pride. Despite the fact that a
substantial literature is devoted to the impacts of ethnic tourism,
little research has been done on how to plan ethnic tourism
attractions or to manage community impacts of tourism. This book
addresses the need for more research on planning for ethnic tourism
by exploring the status and enhancement of planning strategies for
ethnic tourism development. The book develops the case of a
well-known ethnic tourist destination in China -Xishuangbanna,
Yunnan. It analyzes how ethnic tourism has been planned and
developed at the study site and examines associated socio-cultural
and planning issues. The authors evaluate the perspectives of four
key stakeholder groups (the government, tourism entrepreneurs,
ethnic minorities and tourists) on ethnic tourism through on-site
observation, interviews with government officials, planners and
tourism entrepreneurs, surveys of tourists and ethnic minority
people, and evaluation of government policies, plans and
statistics. This book is unique in its emphasis on planning and in
its focus on China, rapidly emerging as a major player in tourism,
with applications for tourism around the world.
‘Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?’ Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations the consequences are devastating. Flaubert’s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: ‘Madame Bovary, c’est moi’. This modern translation by Flaubert’s biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.
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Sentimental Education (Paperback, Revised ed)
Gustave Flaubert; Edited by Geoffrey Wall; Introduction by Robert Baldick; Revised by Geoffrey Wall; Translated by Robert Baldick
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Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an
evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental
Education is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an
introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics. Frederic Moreau
is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he
first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older
than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last
a lifetime. He befriends her husband, influential businessman
Jacques Arnoux, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years.
Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless
affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of
Moreau's life. Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young
man's passions, ambitions and amours as 'the moral history of the
men of my generation'. Based on his own unrequited love for an
older woman, Sentimental Education is one of the greatest French
novels of the nineteenth century. Geoffrey Wall's fresh revision of
Robert Baldick's original translation is accompanied by an
insightful new introduction discussing the personal and historical
influences on Flaubert's writing. This edition also contains a new
chronology, further reading and explanatory notes. Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880) was born in Rouen. After illness interrupted a career
in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote
himself to writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book
publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in
bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly
escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental
Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert achieved
limited success in his own lifetime - but his fame and reputation
grew steadily after his death. If you enjoyed A Sentimental
Education, you may also enjoy Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of
Older Women, available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Three Tales (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Roger Whitehouse; Introduction by Geoffrey Wall
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First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by
questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and
together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary
career. With elegant simplicity, A Simple Heart' relates the story
of Felicite - an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic
faith despite a life of desolation and loss. Inspired by a
stained-glass window in Rouen cathedral, The Legend of Saint Julian
Hospitator' describes the fate of Julian, a sadistic hunter
destined to murder his own parents. The blend of faith and cruelty
that dominates this story may also be found in Herodias' - a
reworking of the tale of Salome and John the Baptist.
Designed for a new generation of readers, this superb anthology includes Sartre's personal responses to New York and Naples, an essay on surrealism and on Brecht, a spoof psychoanalytical dialogue, an extended essay on sexual desire and shorter pieces on maternal love and masturbation. It explores Sartre's celebrated quarrel with Camus, his constant but clear-eyed fascination with communism and, in 'Portraits' of Gide, Genet, Tintoretto and Baudelaire, his revolutionary approach to biography. There could be no better introduction to one of the greatest witnesses to the twentieth century.
Geoffrey Wall's narrative biography of Achille-Cleophas Flaubert,
the father of the author of Madame Bovary, follows him from his
birth in a French provincial town a few years before the Revolution
through to his distinguished career as a physician in an industrial
city. Growing up under the corrosive anguish of the Terror, he
emerged as a talented schoolboy who read Voltaire and imbibed the
radical materialism of the 1790s. As an aspiring medical student in
Paris, he embraced the new scientific medicine and climbed the
ladder of his profession by avoiding military service. As a young
doctor animated by humanitarian ideals, he was appointed to run a
large hospital in Rouen where too many factory workers were dying
young, the most insidious public health problem of the new age. He
was to remain there for thirty years. Drawing on archival sources
in Paris, Rouen and Sens, the book includes meticulous period
details, such as an account of postoperative care in the age before
anaesthetics. The author asks what happened to Enlightenment ideals
in the age of industry and examines the conflict between science
and religion. This is not only a biography of an eminent
nineteenth-century physician but a collective moral history of the
Napoleon generation.
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