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In sunshine and in shadow: adolescent girls and thanatourism in the early American Republic
Journal of Tourism History, 2020Children’s and adolescents’ tourist activities and patterns before the late nineteenth century have not garnered much scholarly attention.
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Tourism Recreation Research, 2002
This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second
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This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second
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Thanatourism and the commodification of war tourism space in ex-Yugoslavia
2011Humanity has a long standing fascination with death and disaster. Although dying has been partially sequestered from many western societies, death itself is the one true anthropological constant, encountered by every society through architecture, literature, language, institutions and many other human practices.
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Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2013
This research note focuses on tourism to heritage sites with a controversial history and sites associated with death, disaster, and the macabre.
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This research note focuses on tourism to heritage sites with a controversial history and sites associated with death, disaster, and the macabre.
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The Musa Dagh History Hike: Truth-Telling, Dialogue and Thanatourism
2016The past is often difficult to grasp, even when it is directly related to one’s family history. The collective memory of historical injustices can be warped by time, overlaid by more recent events, and filtered through the lens of vested interests only too willing to expropriate the past in order to score points in the present.
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2015
The late Benny Hill, one of Britain’s most successful comedians, was probably the only performer to make jokes about cemeteries. ‘Why?’ he once asked, with an expression of innocent bemusement, ‘do they put walls around cemeteries? There’s nobody outside who wants to get in; and nobody on the inside who’s going to get out!’
Tony Seaton, Magda North, Gabriela Gajda
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The late Benny Hill, one of Britain’s most successful comedians, was probably the only performer to make jokes about cemeteries. ‘Why?’ he once asked, with an expression of innocent bemusement, ‘do they put walls around cemeteries? There’s nobody outside who wants to get in; and nobody on the inside who’s going to get out!’
Tony Seaton, Magda North, Gabriela Gajda
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Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism
2013Graham M.S. Dann, A.V. Seaton
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Slavery, Contested Heritage And Thanatourism
Journal of Travel Research, 2003openaire +1 more source
Book Review: Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
Tourist Studies, 2002openaire +1 more source