One Ring, Many Circles: The Hobbiton Tour Experience and a Spatial Approach to Media Power

Tourist Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-53

  Peaslee, Robert Moses ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropology; media power; media tourism; place; ritual; space

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960827501     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797611412063     Document Type: Article

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