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| Author: | Buzinde, C.N. Santos, C.A. |
| Title: | Interpreting slavery tourism |
| Journal: | Annals of Tourism Research
2009 : JUL, VOL. 36:3, p. 439-458 |
| Index terms: | tourism |
| Freeterms: | interpretative communities slavery |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study explores the manner in which tourists endow a former slave plantation with meaning by promoting or degrade its cultural authority. Drawing on the encoding/decoding model and using interviews, this study examines the ways in which tourists decode the plantation by consenting or negating the preferred cultural text through the adoption of dominant, negotiated or oppositional readings. It is found that as active recipients of the preferred reading tourists interpreted/decoded the plantation in dichotomous polarized ways based on the meaning structures and knowledge frameworks. |
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