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Agra
Agra Cantonment
Author_Tim Edensor
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cultural performance analysis
Early Modern Metropolis
enclavic
Enclavic Space
Enclavic Tourist
Enclavic Tourist Space
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fatehpur
Fatehpur Sikra
heritage tourism studies
heterogeneous
Heterogeneous Tourist Spaces
Large Emporia
Lonely Planet
mahal
monument meaning construction
Muslim Visitors
package
Package Tour
Package Tourists
performance
postcolonial identity
Rickshaw Drivers
ritualised space interpretation
Romantic Gaze
Shah Jehan
sites
Small Sellers
space
spaces
St Peters Cathedral
symbolic
Symbolic Sites
Tourist Personnel
tourist site narrative analysis
Tourist Space
Tourist Stage
UNESCO's World Cultural
UNESCO’s World Cultural
visitor experience research
Western Package Tourists
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415167123
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it each year it is simply a monument of love.
The author shows how tourism can be seen as a performance and the tourist site as a stage on which tourists are directed and rehearsed but also able to improvise their own cultural rituals.
Tim Edensor is lecturer and researcher in the department of cultural studies at Staffordshire University. He has researched extensively in tourist practices and popular culture.
