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On souvenirs and metonymy

On souvenirs and metonymy This article scrutinizes souvenirs as highly significant, but underexplored materialobjects of contemporary travel and tourism. It adopts a reflexive interpretiveapproach to explore the relationship between materiality, tourism and constructionsof self-identity and examines how individuals reflexively use souvenirs astouchstones of memory, (re)creating polysensual tourism experiences, self-aware oftheir roles of ‘tourists’. It pays particular attention to theways in which souvenirs are objects mediating experiences in time and space andargues for more experiential and reflexive study of the roles of materiality andmemory in the construction of tourist identities and performances. It concludes bysuggesting how further interpretive studies could offer unique insights into how theabsorption of souvenirs into the realm of the mundane and the domestic transformsthe home space, fusing tourism and contemporary everyday life. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

On souvenirs and metonymy

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Abstract

This article scrutinizes souvenirs as highly significant, but underexplored materialobjects of contemporary travel and tourism. It adopts a reflexive interpretiveapproach to explore the relationship between materiality, tourism and constructionsof self-identity and examines how individuals reflexively use souvenirs astouchstones of memory, (re)creating polysensual tourism experiences, self-aware oftheir roles of ‘tourists’. It pays particular attention to theways in which souvenirs are objects mediating experiences in time and space andargues for more experiential and reflexive study of the roles of materiality andmemory in the construction of tourist identities and performances. It concludes bysuggesting how further interpretive studies could offer unique insights into how theabsorption of souvenirs into the realm of the mundane and the domestic transformsthe home space, fusing tourism and contemporary everyday life.

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Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE

Published: Apr 1, 2005

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