The staging culture an experiment to comprehend commodification through visual ethnography

In this Bachelor’s thesis the emphasis is to experiment the ways in which commodificated cultural representations can be captured and examined through the use of visual ethnography as well as expand the current understanding on Dean MacCannell’s theory on the six stages of authenticity set forward i...

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Main Author: Tarvainen, Marianna
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Historian ja etnologian laitos, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Bachelor's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/48377
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Summary:In this Bachelor’s thesis the emphasis is to experiment the ways in which commodificated cultural representations can be captured and examined through the use of visual ethnography as well as expand the current understanding on Dean MacCannell’s theory on the six stages of authenticity set forward in his book The Tourist: A new theory of the leisure class (2013). The visual material for the thesis was collected from Agadir, Morocco in 2014.