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Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site

By Tim Edensor

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
1134705506, 9781134705504
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1198804 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Time added
2023-02-27 07:30:29

Description

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.

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