Postcards and frontier mythologies : sustaining views of the Kimberley as timeless

Auteurs :
WAITT, G.
HEAD, L.

Description :
In the paper, the AA. examine the role of postcards in disseminating and circulating Australian frontier myths. The ritual practice of selecting, writing, and sending a postcard is explored within the themes of souvenir, testimony, and anticipation. A report is provided of methods designed to reveal how individual tourists interpret these postcards as semiotic texts. They seem to perpetuate experiences associated with Australian frontier mythologies.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning. D. Society and space, issn : 0263-7758, 2002, vol. 20, n°. 3, p. 319-344, nombre de pages : 26, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.

Date :
2002

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion