ABSTRACT

Empty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on `Cannibal Tours', `The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I

chapter 1|57 pages

Cannibalism today

chapter 2|13 pages

Orange County, Yugoslavia

chapter 3|27 pages

Postmodern community planning

Notes on the homeless and other nomads

chapter 4|5 pages

Nature Incorporated

part |2 pages

Part II

chapter 5|26 pages

White Culture

chapter 6|11 pages

The Liberty restoration project

chapter 7|14 pages

Reconstructed ethnicity

Tourism and cultural identity in Third World communities

chapter 8|10 pages

The Locke case

part |1 pages

Part III

chapter 9|47 pages

The desire to be postmodern

chapter 10|25 pages

Spectacles

chapter 11|25 pages

The future of ritual

chapter 12|3 pages

The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC