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1 MacCannel, Dean, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York, 1976)Google Scholar, and Smith, Valene, ed., Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (Philadelphia, 1977)Google Scholar, are seminal works. The author would like to thank Professors William Childs and David Stebenne of The Ohio State University for commenting on earlier drafts of this essay.
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