Visitor encounters with the Great Barrier Reef : aesthetics, heritage, and the senses /: aesthetics, heritage, and the senses. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Visitor encounters with the Great Barrier Reef : aesthetics, heritage, and the senses /: aesthetics, heritage, and the senses. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Visitor encounters with the Great Barrier Reef : aesthetics, heritage, and the senses
- Further Information:
- Note: Celmara Pocock.
- Authors:
- Pocock, Celmara (Celmara Anne)
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction World Heritage Values New directions in heritage The cultural bias and potential of aesthetic value Aesthetics as Senses and Place Visitor experience References PART I: VISITOR EXPERIENCES OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 2 Orientation, wayfinding and cartographic knowledge of the Reef * Disorientation and Danger Controlling Danger: orientation and mapping Science, tourism and navigation Visitor Traditions of Orientation In the Footsteps of the Navigators Disorientation Orientation: Continuity and Change References * Chapter 3 Visitors’ Sensuous Experiences at the Reef Seeing the Reef Feeling the Reef Fossicking Heat Sea Water Insects Reef Sounds Sighing She-Oaks Birds Whistling Sand Smelling the Reef Tasting the Reef Turtle Tropical flavours Merging Senses and Movement References Chapter 4 Sharing Experience of the Reef with the World Contact and Copy The Means of Capture Verbal and Written Description Collections Images Transmission of Experience The Panoramic View The Underwater World Representing a Multi-Sensuous Reef References PART II – CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 5 Reef Islands as Signifiers of Paradise Australian Landscapes of the Great Barrier Reef Australian Bush as the Everyday In Pursuit of Paradise The Coconut Palm as Signifier of Paradise Found The Coconut Palm and Local Knowledge A Tourist Gaze for Australian Visitors References Chapter 6 Controlling the Underwater Reef through Cultivation of CoralChapter 1 Introduction World Heritage Values New directions in heritage The cultural bias and potential of aesthetic value Aesthetics as Senses and Place Visitor experience References PART I: VISITOR EXPERIENCES OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 2 Orientation, wayfinding and cartographic knowledge of the Reef * Disorientation and Danger Controlling Danger: orientation and mapping Science, tourism and navigation Visitor Traditions of Orientation In the Footsteps of the Navigators Disorientation Orientation: Continuity and Change References * Chapter 3 Visitors’ Sensuous Experiences at the Reef Seeing the Reef Feeling the Reef Fossicking Heat Sea Water Insects Reef Sounds Sighing She-Oaks Birds Whistling Sand Smelling the Reef Tasting the Reef Turtle Tropical flavours Merging Senses and Movement References Chapter 4 Sharing Experience of the Reef with the World Contact and Copy The Means of Capture Verbal and Written Description Collections Images Transmission of Experience The Panoramic View The Underwater World Representing a Multi-Sensuous Reef References PART II – CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF Chapter 5 Reef Islands as Signifiers of Paradise Australian Landscapes of the Great Barrier Reef Australian Bush as the Everyday In Pursuit of Paradise The Coconut Palm as Signifier of Paradise Found The Coconut Palm and Local Knowledge A Tourist Gaze for Australian Visitors References Chapter 6 Controlling the Underwater Reef through Cultivation of Coral Gardens Cartographic Mimesis: Control Over the Other Out of Control: A Return to Otherness Seeking Similitude: Coral Gardens Aquariums as controlled gardens Immersion and loss of control Coral gardens as imagery References Chapter 7 The Great Barrier Reef as Hyperreality and World Heritage The Simulacra of a Single Natural Reef Hyper-Reality at ReefWorld Loss of Place Conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Listing Postscript References Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 919.43047
Tourism -- Anthropological aspects -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- History
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Description and travel
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Qld.) - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351688574
9781351688581
9781351688567
9781315169316 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138049918
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.461478
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