%0 Journal Article
%T Re-thinking the contributions of Dean Maccannell. A new theory of leisure class placed under debate
%A Maximiliano Korstanje
%J Antrocom : Online Journal of Anthropology
%D 2009
%I Antrocom Onlus
%X Today, Dean Maccannell has become in one of most important scholars in tourism fields. Not only his contributions have been quoted in whole literature and tourism-related journals, but also had taken as an obligated referenced for all who makes tourism their object of study. Under such a context, Maccannell have constructed his state-of-the-art from an axis linked to Marx-Goffman-Durkheim- Levi-Strauss¡¯s concerns. In consequence, he had not taken into account the different criticism and limitations this frame-work represents. The present paper shed light critically about the theoretical problems of The Tourist as well as focuses on the problems these well-known scholars remain unresolved.
%K Tourism
%K Marxism
%K Symbolic interaction
%K Structuralism
%K Alienation.
%U http://www.antrocom.net/upload/sub/antrocom/050109/02-Antrocom.pdf