David Picard
Biographic Data
| ID | 637935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Picard |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Picard |
| SIGNATURE | PICARD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6677-4197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection
Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden
Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener wou…
Kitchen Banalities Into Tourist Magic Tourism Cosmology and Tour Guide Mediation in La Réunion
Drawing on ethnographic research in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, the article explores how tour guides transform the banalities of local everyday life into deeply moving tourist stories, and by that means position themselves as social characters within a wider tourism cosmology. At times they become actual extensions of the projected magical qualities of the destinations, at times enlightened mediators of a post-traditional condition in …
Wine Magic: Consumer Culture, Tourism, and Terroir
This article explores strangeness-familiarity relations in the context of global wine consumer culture. While observing wine as a deeply familiar foodstuff and consumer commodity that is part of their quotidian life-worlds, wine consumers equally emphasize the particularity, hence implicit separation and distance with symbolically elevated wine production areas and terroirs. Our argument is that wine therefore belongs to a wider class of magical …
Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation
Contents: Introduction Tourism, awe and inner journeys, David Picard The emotional tourist, Mike Robinson Part I Emotions and Inner Journeys: The dark is on the inside: the honne of Japanese exploratory tourists, Nelson Graburn Seeking the existential moment, Elvi Whittaker Affect and moral transformations in young volunteer tourists, A%omilie Crossley Overwhelmed by divinity in Jerusalem, Eliezer Witztum and Moshe Kalian Passionate movements: em…
Colonial memory, hospitality and tourism in southwestern Madagascar
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a coastal village in southwestern Madagascar, the work explores the concept of memory through a study of contemporary hospitality practices aimed towards western tourists and other outsiders. The key observation is that memory is shaped by the interactions between two forms of colonial legacy. One is defined by the socially inscribed memory of past relations with powerful outsiders, mediated through myth …
Boys go fishing, girls work at home: Gender roles, poverty and unequal school access among semi-nomadic fishing communities in South Western Madagascar
Drawing from data gathered in South Western Madagascar in 2011, the work explores the combination of poverty and traditional gender roles as a critical factor in determining unequal school access among young people from semi-nomadic fishing communities. It demonstrates that from the age of early puberty, most boys go fishing with their fathers and brothers whilst most girls from the same families work at home. In contrast to the school systems ob…
The Festive Frame: Festivals as Mediators for Social Change
Building on Erwin Goffman's (1974) notion of frame, the article approaches the 'festive' as a socially produced conceptual structure by means of which people organize their perception of and participation in the world. Picking up on the epistemic threats initially developed in early French sociology, it explores the ability of different elements and forms of the 'festive' to act as mediator for social change
White magic: An anthropological perspective on value in Antarctic tourism
This work explores the value of “magic” that Antarctic tourists frequently associate with their encounters of the White Continent. The argument developed here is that this magic emerges as a discourse delineating Antarctica as a radically Other to the modern Self in general, while at the same time offering a symbolic essence to modern social life that tourists actively seek out and try to capture while on the tour. Through its focus on the ambiva…
Hospitality and dispossession in Madagascar
Drawing on ethnographic data collected among a group of coastal villagers in Southwest Madagascar between 2006 and 2011, this article looks at the relationship between hospitality towards strangers and land dispossession, a major issue of concern in Madagascar, especially given the comparatively recent mineral, energy resource, and stone mining rush in the country. Belief in spirits plays a role in this
Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference
Tourism and the power of otherness: Seductions of Difference
This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a p…
Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
Introduction: Through Other Worlds
Tourism as theatre: Performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary
This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter reproduces commensurability between two main figures associated with Australian settler history, namely the country's pre-colonial indigenous species of anima…
The tourist plot: Antarctica and the modernity of nature
Regimes of value in tourism
1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism Emilie Crossley and David Picard 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' discourses Fabiola Mancinelli 4. Branding Copan: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological touris…
Cosmopolitanism and hospitality
Cosmopolitanism is a philosophical and political movement defending equality among humans and the idea of world citizenship as guiding principles. Cosmopolites claim that overcoming ethnic communalism and nationalism as institutions to define social identity, and promoting instead world citizenship and the principle of universal hospitality, will create conditions for lasting peace among people. Cosmopolitanism is a core element of the political …
What It Feels Like to Be a Tourist Explorations Into the Meaningful Experiences of Ordinary Mass Tourists
Based on ethnographic data gathered through observations made as a tour guide in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, I explore “what it feels like to be a tourist”. My aim is to articulate observations of subjective tourist experience with theory about the structural frames of tourism culture and the touristic realms these have brought about. I argue that the individual experience of sites evolves within broadly shared aesthetic cultures, but …
‘Being a model for the world’: Performing Creoleness in La Réunion
In this article, I shall argue that concepts of Creoleness are used both to formulate an ethics of modern time and mobility, and to form social realities whose experience, among others through tourism, brings this very ethics alive. Creoleness presents itself here as a powerful allegory to think about time in terms of a linear process, as ‘history’ emanating in an imaginary point of purity and origin, and leading towards a state of increasing mel…
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economi…
The Festive Frame: Festivals as Mediators for Social Change
Building on Erwin Goffman's (1974) notion of frame, the article approaches the 'festive' as a socially produced conceptual structure by means of which people organize their perception of and participation in the world. Picking up on the epistemic threats initially developed in early French sociology, it explores the ability of different elements and forms of the 'festive' to act as mediator for social change
Wine Magic: Consumer Culture, Tourism, and Terroir
This article explores strangeness-familiarity relations in the context of global wine consumer culture. While observing wine as a deeply familiar foodstuff and consumer commodity that is part of their quotidian life-worlds, wine consumers equally emphasize the particularity, hence implicit separation and distance with symbolically elevated wine production areas and terroirs. Our argument is that wine therefore belongs to a wider class of magical …
White magic: An anthropological perspective on value in Antarctic tourism
This work explores the value of “magic” that Antarctic tourists frequently associate with their encounters of the White Continent. The argument developed here is that this magic emerges as a discourse delineating Antarctica as a radically Other to the modern Self in general, while at the same time offering a symbolic essence to modern social life that tourists actively seek out and try to capture while on the tour. Through its focus on the ambiva…
The tourist plot: Antarctica and the modernity of nature
Boys go fishing, girls work at home: Gender roles, poverty and unequal school access among semi-nomadic fishing communities in South Western Madagascar
Drawing from data gathered in South Western Madagascar in 2011, the work explores the combination of poverty and traditional gender roles as a critical factor in determining unequal school access among young people from semi-nomadic fishing communities. It demonstrates that from the age of early puberty, most boys go fishing with their fathers and brothers whilst most girls from the same families work at home. In contrast to the school systems ob…
Hospitality and dispossession in Madagascar
Drawing on ethnographic data collected among a group of coastal villagers in Southwest Madagascar between 2006 and 2011, this article looks at the relationship between hospitality towards strangers and land dispossession, a major issue of concern in Madagascar, especially given the comparatively recent mineral, energy resource, and stone mining rush in the country. Belief in spirits plays a role in this
Tourism as theatre: Performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary
This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter reproduces commensurability between two main figures associated with Australian settler history, namely the country's pre-colonial indigenous species of anima…
Regimes of value in tourism
1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism Emilie Crossley and David Picard 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' discourses Fabiola Mancinelli 4. Branding Copan: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological touris…
What It Feels Like to Be a Tourist Explorations Into the Meaningful Experiences of Ordinary Mass Tourists
Based on ethnographic data gathered through observations made as a tour guide in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, I explore “what it feels like to be a tourist”. My aim is to articulate observations of subjective tourist experience with theory about the structural frames of tourism culture and the touristic realms these have brought about. I argue that the individual experience of sites evolves within broadly shared aesthetic cultures, but …
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economi…
Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation
Contents: Introduction Tourism, awe and inner journeys, David Picard The emotional tourist, Mike Robinson Part I Emotions and Inner Journeys: The dark is on the inside: the honne of Japanese exploratory tourists, Nelson Graburn Seeking the existential moment, Elvi Whittaker Affect and moral transformations in young volunteer tourists, A%omilie Crossley Overwhelmed by divinity in Jerusalem, Eliezer Witztum and Moshe Kalian Passionate movements: em…
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economi…
‘Being a model for the world’: Performing Creoleness in La Réunion
In this article, I shall argue that concepts of Creoleness are used both to formulate an ethics of modern time and mobility, and to form social realities whose experience, among others through tourism, brings this very ethics alive. Creoleness presents itself here as a powerful allegory to think about time in terms of a linear process, as ‘history’ emanating in an imaginary point of purity and origin, and leading towards a state of increasing mel…
Cosmopolitanism and hospitality
Cosmopolitanism is a philosophical and political movement defending equality among humans and the idea of world citizenship as guiding principles. Cosmopolites claim that overcoming ethnic communalism and nationalism as institutions to define social identity, and promoting instead world citizenship and the principle of universal hospitality, will create conditions for lasting peace among people. Cosmopolitanism is a core element of the political …
What It Feels Like to Be a Tourist Explorations Into the Meaningful Experiences of Ordinary Mass Tourists
Based on ethnographic data gathered through observations made as a tour guide in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, I explore “what it feels like to be a tourist”. My aim is to articulate observations of subjective tourist experience with theory about the structural frames of tourism culture and the touristic realms these have brought about. I argue that the individual experience of sites evolves within broadly shared aesthetic cultures, but …
Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference
Tourism and the power of otherness: Seductions of Difference
This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a p…
Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
Introduction: Through Other Worlds
Tourism as theatre: Performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary
This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter reproduces commensurability between two main figures associated with Australian settler history, namely the country's pre-colonial indigenous species of anima…
The tourist plot: Antarctica and the modernity of nature
Regimes of value in tourism
1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism Emilie Crossley and David Picard 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' discourses Fabiola Mancinelli 4. Branding Copan: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological touris…
White magic: An anthropological perspective on value in Antarctic tourism
This work explores the value of “magic” that Antarctic tourists frequently associate with their encounters of the White Continent. The argument developed here is that this magic emerges as a discourse delineating Antarctica as a radically Other to the modern Self in general, while at the same time offering a symbolic essence to modern social life that tourists actively seek out and try to capture while on the tour. Through its focus on the ambiva…
Hospitality and dispossession in Madagascar
Drawing on ethnographic data collected among a group of coastal villagers in Southwest Madagascar between 2006 and 2011, this article looks at the relationship between hospitality towards strangers and land dispossession, a major issue of concern in Madagascar, especially given the comparatively recent mineral, energy resource, and stone mining rush in the country. Belief in spirits plays a role in this
Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation
Contents: Introduction Tourism, awe and inner journeys, David Picard The emotional tourist, Mike Robinson Part I Emotions and Inner Journeys: The dark is on the inside: the honne of Japanese exploratory tourists, Nelson Graburn Seeking the existential moment, Elvi Whittaker Affect and moral transformations in young volunteer tourists, A%omilie Crossley Overwhelmed by divinity in Jerusalem, Eliezer Witztum and Moshe Kalian Passionate movements: em…
Colonial memory, hospitality and tourism in southwestern Madagascar
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a coastal village in southwestern Madagascar, the work explores the concept of memory through a study of contemporary hospitality practices aimed towards western tourists and other outsiders. The key observation is that memory is shaped by the interactions between two forms of colonial legacy. One is defined by the socially inscribed memory of past relations with powerful outsiders, mediated through myth …
Boys go fishing, girls work at home: Gender roles, poverty and unequal school access among semi-nomadic fishing communities in South Western Madagascar
Drawing from data gathered in South Western Madagascar in 2011, the work explores the combination of poverty and traditional gender roles as a critical factor in determining unequal school access among young people from semi-nomadic fishing communities. It demonstrates that from the age of early puberty, most boys go fishing with their fathers and brothers whilst most girls from the same families work at home. In contrast to the school systems ob…
The Festive Frame: Festivals as Mediators for Social Change
Building on Erwin Goffman's (1974) notion of frame, the article approaches the 'festive' as a socially produced conceptual structure by means of which people organize their perception of and participation in the world. Picking up on the epistemic threats initially developed in early French sociology, it explores the ability of different elements and forms of the 'festive' to act as mediator for social change
Kitchen Banalities Into Tourist Magic Tourism Cosmology and Tour Guide Mediation in La Réunion
Drawing on ethnographic research in the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion, the article explores how tour guides transform the banalities of local everyday life into deeply moving tourist stories, and by that means position themselves as social characters within a wider tourism cosmology. At times they become actual extensions of the projected magical qualities of the destinations, at times enlightened mediators of a post-traditional condition in …
Wine Magic: Consumer Culture, Tourism, and Terroir
This article explores strangeness-familiarity relations in the context of global wine consumer culture. While observing wine as a deeply familiar foodstuff and consumer commodity that is part of their quotidian life-worlds, wine consumers equally emphasize the particularity, hence implicit separation and distance with symbolically elevated wine production areas and terroirs. Our argument is that wine therefore belongs to a wider class of magical …
Tourism, Magic and Modernity: Cultivating the Human Garden
Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener wou…
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection
Sociology (14 works) · Tourism (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works)