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The tour guide : walking and talking New York
- Title
- The tour guide : walking and talking New York / Jonathan R. Wynn.
- Author
- Wynn, Jonathan R.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- Uniform Title
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- City murals -- Characters in the crowds, offering New York "like a native" -- The work of walking -- The walking guide, the city, and this book -- The guiding world -- From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Statue of Liberty -- The rise of New York guiding -- "There are many guides, and only one test" -- Tensions -- An untidy career -- After the rush -- "Deciding to make a go of it": getting into guiding -- Working as a guide -- Harmonizing work, and other rationales -- Beyond the sidewalk -- The guide-centered working ecology -- Guiding relationships -- Connecting with other guides -- Wrangling, promoting, connecting: working with organizations -- " . . . but they also use our name to market themselves" -- Shticks of the trade -- "We change our environment" -- Routemaking -- Storytelling tricks -- "Walking is about your senses . . . it's about experiencing" -- Entertaining identities -- Working with an audience -- Interacting with common tourist types -- Negotiating edutainment -- "They expect you as the product as well" -- Situational identities and symbolic armor -- Re-keying the city -- Neighborhood narratives and the collective urban culture -- "I don't own the neighborhood . . . " -- A different kind of tourism: "teaching the stuff that tourists don't even know that they want to know" -- "Learning 'the connect'": tours and street intellectualism -- Urban alchemists -- The transmutation of the city -- "It's a charming story, and I couch it that way": shifting the cultural ground -- "Do you want to come in and see my house?": spontaneity and the city -- "Teach them how to dress": transforming the visitor into a local and a local into a tourist -- Ghosts in the machine --
- Call Number
- IRGV 11-7987
- ISBN
- 9780226919058 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226919056 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226919065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226919064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010048754
- OCLC
- 666235049
- Author
- Wynn, Jonathan R.
- Title
- The tour guide : walking and talking New York / Jonathan R. Wynn.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Series
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IRGV 11-7987