Walden Pond and the Performative Touristic Gaze
This is an ethnographic study of tourism at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. I argue that Walden Pond operates as a site that creates tensions among visitors due to the ways that time has transformed the once serene landscape into an overcrowded swimming pool. These tensions, however, fall und...
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LSU
2008
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-09092008-153306/ |