| Description |
1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Fieldwork encounters and discoveries |
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Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start-and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of New York's raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverse-and eccentric-as the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, the culinary traditi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tour guides (Persons) -- New York (State) -- New York
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
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Culture and tourism -- New York (State) -- New York
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TRAVEL -- United States -- Northeast -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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TRAVEL -- United States -- Northeast -- General.
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Culture and tourism
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Tour guides (Persons)
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091415
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- New York
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226919072 |
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0226919072 |
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1283242370 |
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9781283242370 |
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9786613242372 |
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6613242373 |
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