1. Staging Tourism II: Staging the Natural
What do we get out of our encounters with "wild" animals? ... "The intensity of public discourses of the natural rises and falls at different historical junctures and exists in complex relation to notions of religion, science, and civil society (147)." ... As Desmond says, " animal tourism, sell[s] an experience of the natural through exposure to wild animals, whether or not the particular animals have ever lived in or even seen the mythical wilderness the are tied to it in our imaginations." ... What is it that draws us to certain animals? ... We tend to place animals in superficial cat...
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