Italy without Borders: Simulacra, Tourism, Suburbia, and the New Grand Tour
Italy without Borders: Simulacra, Tourism, Suburbia, and the New Grand Tour
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意大利无国界：拟像、旅游、郊区和新的大旅游
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2010
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S. Hom
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摘要本文探讨了三个代表“意大利”的意大利拟像：1）拉斯维加斯的威尼斯人酒店和赌场，2）东京迪斯尼海洋主题公园的地中海港口，3）北方加州都柏林牧场的索伦托豪华郊区。在方法论上，它采用人类学参与观察和民族志文献的原则。它面对的是意大利在物质上重建的形象，以及在旅游业的光环下再现的相应的受控制的社会化形式。通过将这些拟像并置，本文有意创造了一个蒙太奇，揭示了现代意大利的新思想。具体来说，这些拟像标志着想象中的社区转变为旅游商品，一种意大利超现实，以及被休闲的外表所掩盖的日常权力实践。
Abstract This essay explores three Italianate simulacra that stand in for 'Italy': 1) the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, 2) Mediterranean Harbor at the Tokyo DisneySea theme park, and 3) the luxury suburb of Sorrento at Dublin Ranch in northern California. Methodologically, it engages the tenets of anthropological participant-observation and ethnographic documentation. It confronts physically reconstructed images of Italy and corresponding forms of controlled socialization re-presented under the gloss of tourism. By juxtaposing these simulacra, this essay deliberately creates a montage that reveals new ideas about modern Italy. Specifically, these simulacra mark the transformation of imagined community into touristic commodity, a type of Italian hyperreality, and everyday practices of power covered up by a patina of leisure.