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Nash, D. 1979 Tourism in Pre-Industrial Societies. Cahiers du Tourisme, SCrie C, no. 51. Aix-en-Provence: CHET. Nash, D., and R. Wintrob 1972 The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography. Current Anthropology 131527-42. Redfoot, D. 1984 Touristic Authority, Touristic Angst, and Modern Reality. Alternative Sociology 7:291-309. Submitted 1 September 1995 Accepted 5 October 1995
Ideal Tourism Models Michael Harkin
University Dennison Nash’s criticisms have included more specific
are perfectly data about
of Wyoming,
USA
true. Certainly, the article could tourists in Paris and elsewhere,
where this research was conducted. However, the intent of this piece was not to add to the store of empirical data on tourism, but rather to construct a model that embraced tourism and other forms of experience of otherness, especially certain types of cultural anthropology, within a Greimassian semiotic paradigm. To this writer’s knowledge, such a direct comparison of anthropology and tourism within a formal model has not been made before. It goes without saying that this sort of formal theoretical model involves the construction of “ideal types”-explicitly describing the polar positions on the semiotic square (differentiating, totalizing, universalizing, particularizing), a model which also contained positions for a wide range of more complex xenological perspectives. One may or may not agree with or like such a model; one may even, especially within the Anglo-Saxon intellectual world, reject altogether the applicability of formal models to cultural phenomena. But it seems a little strange to criticize a formal analysis (yes, even one derived from “subversive” Parisian sources!) for not being an empirical description. 0 q Michael Harkin: Department of Anthropolqq, USA. Email [email protected]. Submitted 11 September 1995 Accepted 5 October 1995
Unioersig
of Wyoming,
Laramie
WY 82071,
REJOINDERS
AND COMMENTARY
Nash, D. 1979 Tourism in Pre-Industrial Societies. Cahiers du Tourisme, SCrie C, no. 51. Aix-en-Provence: CHET. Nash, D., and R. Wintrob 1972 The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography. Current Anthropology 131527-42. Redfoot, D. 1984 Touristic Authority, Touristic Angst, and Modern Reality. Alternative Sociology 7:291-309. Submitted 1 September 1995 Accepted 5 October 1995
Ideal Tourism Models Michael Harkin
University Dennison Nash’s criticisms have included more specific
are perfectly data about
of Wyoming,
USA
true. Certainly, the article could tourists in Paris and elsewhere,
where this research was conducted. However, the intent of this piece was not to add to the store of empirical data on tourism, but rather to construct a model that embraced tourism and other forms of experience of otherness, especially certain types of cultural anthropology, within a Greimassian semiotic paradigm. To this writer’s knowledge, such a direct comparison of anthropology and tourism within a formal model has not been made before. It goes without saying that this sort of formal theoretical model involves the construction of “ideal types”-explicitly describing the polar positions on the semiotic square (differentiating, totalizing, universalizing, particularizing), a model which also contained positions for a wide range of more complex xenological perspectives. One may or may not agree with or like such a model; one may even, especially within the Anglo-Saxon intellectual world, reject altogether the applicability of formal models to cultural phenomena. But it seems a little strange to criticize a formal analysis (yes, even one derived from “subversive” Parisian sources!) for not being an empirical description. 0 q Michael Harkin: Department of Anthropolqq, USA. Email [email protected]. Submitted 11 September 1995 Accepted 5 October 1995
Unioersig
of Wyoming,
Laramie
WY 82071,