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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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Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism
, 2013 Graham M.S. Dann, A.V. Seaton
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Changes in motivations for journeys to death spaces: the case of thanatourism.
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Cruelty, age, and thanatourism
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006Two areas of research for testing Nell's theory are suggested. One is cruelty's seemingly negative correlation with age, which would confirm its linkage with testosterone, sex, and dominance. The other is the special field of leisure activity called thanatourism, that is, the transformation of loci of human horror into tourist attractions.
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Chapter 5. Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism
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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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