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dc.contributor.authorBaldacchino, Godfrey-
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-20T08:55:07Z-
dc.date.available2017-01-20T08:55:07Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationBaldacchino, G. (2010). Re-placing materiality : a western anthropology of sand. Annals of Tourism Research, 37(3), 763–778,en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15632-
dc.description.abstractSand has become such a powerful visual, emotive and experiential component of tourism. This essay ventures an ontological explanation for the Western world’s acquired and now gripping fascination with this particularly mundane material, and its robust current connection with the tourism industry. The paper argues that this engagement with sand’s materiality is a culturally determined response, an extension of an encounter with what is seen to be real, in the context of a contemporary experience that is increasingly given over to virtual objects and representations. An anthropology of sand—a conjunction of the cultural and material—with a particular focus on beach tourism, offers a complex, multi-layered experience where the real and the fictive are mutually constituteden_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAnnals of Tourism Researchen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectSand -- Western countriesen_GB
dc.subjectShore protection -- Western countriesen_GB
dc.subjectTourism -- Western countriesen_GB
dc.titleRe-placing materiality : a western anthropology of sanden_GB
dc.title.alternativeA western anthropology of sanden_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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dc.description.reviewedpeer-revieweden_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.annals.2010.02.005
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