Out of Practice: Foreign Travel as the Productive Disruption of Embodied Knowledge Schemes

This paper explores foreign travel as an affective experience, embodied practice and form of learning. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on tourism and pilgrimage in the Himalayan region, the phenomenological notions of “home world” and “alien world” are employed to discuss how perceptions of strang...

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Main Author: Howard, Christopher A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University [2015]
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-12
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Long-distance tourism / Journey / Knowledge / Embodiment
RelBib Classification:KBM Asia
ZB Sociology
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