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By Michelle Duffy,Judith Mair

Festivals and occasions are of huge value to many groups world wide. they could have ancient, spiritual, cultural and conventional value, and they're additionally very important elements of group building.


This publication makes a speciality of those small-scale, non-metropolitan occasions (i.e. rural, neighborhood and peri-urban) to discover the complicated relationships among position, group and identification and the ways that competition occasions carry those into being. via drawing at the proposal of ‘encounter’, this e-book examines how fairs and occasions will be noticeable essentially as areas the place diversified humans meet. This idea of come across is helping us to appreciate how conviviality and social family members are constructed, and what this then ability by way of social unity and social justice. It additionally attracts on present theoretical and methodological methods that may let us know concerning the function of gala's in modern existence, and it comprises the sensual method, the geographies of have an effect on and emotion, the proposal of the fitting to the town and nonrepresentation theory.


The ebook brings jointly those views and examines their relevance in the neighborhood occasions context, picking out and discussing theoretical frameworks drawn from (including yet now not restricted to) human geography, sociology, anthropology, rest reports and concrete making plans, in addition to tourism and occasion reviews. For those purposes, Festival Encounters will be a worthy learn for college students and teachers engaged on quite a lot of disciplines.

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