Articles with the keyword Erlebnis

• Hazel Andrews

  Tourism as a ‘Moment of Being’

  Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society Volume 34(2) 2009:5-21

  Abstract

  The purpose of this article is to gather together a number of conceptual or
  theoretical points drawn from the wider social anthropological discourse on the
  nature of experience. It advances understandings of the anthropology of experience
  through the medium of tourism. In turn it also illuminates understandings of
  the nature of tourism experiences. The article is largely a theoretical piece that is
  illustrated with details drawn from an ethnographic study of two charter tourism
  resorts—Palmanova and Magaluf—in Mallorca. Therefore, in an attempt to
  elucidate more carefully what experience means, it draws on the discussions of
  ‘experience’ in the wider anthropological literature, most notably the existential
  anthropology of Michael Jackson (2005) and The Anthropology of Experience
  (Turner and Bruner 1986), and makes links to the writings of Pierre Bourdieu
  on the concepts of ‘habitus’ and ‘field’, bringing them to bear on the subject of
  tourism.

  Keywords Erfahrung, Erlebnis, experience, habitus, identity, Mallorca, tourists