Reconstructing the Antarctic tourist interaction ritual chain: visual sociological perspective

The objective of this article was to reconstruct the main events that constitute Antarctic tourist interaction ritual chain. The data come from the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Ushuaia, Argentina, in 2013 in the framework of the research project “Anthropology of Antarctic Tourism”. Visual soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Polar Journal
Main Authors: Zuev, D., Picard, D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Routledge/Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:
Antarctica
Tourist interaction ritual chain
Visual
Ushuaia
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais
Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Outras Humanidades
Antarctic
Argentina
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/10532
https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2015.1025495
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Summary:The objective of this article was to reconstruct the main events that constitute Antarctic tourist interaction ritual chain. The data come from the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Ushuaia, Argentina, in 2013 in the framework of the research project “Anthropology of Antarctic Tourism”. Visual sociological perspective employed in this article uses symbolic interactionist theory and photo-elicitation interviews to advance our understanding of processes, practices and ritual interactions of tourists that sustain the Antarctic value system. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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