Doing Modernity: Studies in Critical Interactionism

Annals ofTourism Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 756-779, 1994 Copynght @ 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. AU rights reserved 0160.7383/94 $6.00 + .OO 0160-7383(94)E0008-F TOWARD a Critical Analysis OF TOURISM REPRESENTATIONS Wayne Martin Mellinger University of California-Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper advances a “critical analysis of tourism representations” through examina- tion of photographic postcards of African Americans from the South during the period 1893 to 1917. Analysis of these photographic images reveals that specific iconographic strategies were employed by postcard photographers to culturally inscribe black bodies with “Otherness.” Analy- sis of the postcard senders’ messages reveals that these texts were often interpreted by tourists as interchangeable images of the mythic Old South or as attempts at humor. These images posi- tioned black subjects in a racist regime of representation...

Presenting Emanuel Schegloff  John Heritage, Sociology UCLA Emanuel Schegloff is a co-originator (with the late Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson) and the leading contemporary authority in the field which has come to be known as 'conversation analysis' (henceforth CA). This field, once described as 'perhaps the only completely new sociological research methodology developed in the United States since World War II,' first found published expression in Schegloff's 'Sequencing in Conversational Openings' (Schegloff, 1968). Since that time the field has developed very substantially. Many hundreds of research papers and monographs in conversation analysis have now been published and, in addition to North America, CA is practiced in many countries in Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and Australasia. As this list suggests, CA is finding application in a substantial number of languages. Its use has also broadened from its original and primary domain - ordinary...