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Spas : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses

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Under senare Ă„r har vi sett en snabbt vĂ€xande nĂ€ring med fokus pĂ„ hĂ€lsa och vĂ€lbefinnande. Lugnande upplevelser förpackas, iscensĂ€tts och konsumeras som kommersiella varor – turistkomplexen har kommit att bli en del av den sĂ„ kallade kulturekonomin.

I Spas – the Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses anvĂ€nder författaren Tom O’Dell spaanlĂ€ggningarna för att belysa hur kulturella och ekonomiska processer har sammanvĂ€vts över tid.

Författaren tar med lĂ€saren pĂ„ en resa frĂ„n 1600-talet till idag och visar hur frĂ„gor som gĂ€stfrihet, vĂ€lbefinnande och magi har hanterats ur kommersiella perspektiv. O’Dell förankrar sina studier i en kulturanalys av kroppen och sinnesförnimmelserna som grundar sig pĂ„ nya perspektiv som har utvecklats inom humanistisk och samhĂ€llsvetenskaplig kulturforskning.

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed as commercial commodities – the tourist complexes have become part of the so called ‘cultural economy’.

br> In Spas – the Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses ethnologist Tom O’Dell uses spas to highlight the manner in which the culturalization of the economy has developed.

The author takes his readers on a journey from the seventeenth century into the present and shows how issues of hospitality, well-being and religious magic have been handled in commercialized settings through history. He also anchors his discussion firmly in a cultural analysis of the body and senses that draws upon recent work in cultural theory that has been developed in the humanities and social sciences.