An Anthropological Study of Hospitality : The Innkeeper and the Guest

• Main Author: Touval, Amitai. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology.; Idealism, German.; Ethnography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319420493
• Physical Description: VIII, 80 p. online resource.

This volume explores recent developments in the practice of hospitality, as well as the curious, precarious relationship between guests and their hosts. Drawing from personal interactions with an aging innkeeper called Herr Klaus and modern Airbnb hostess Gretchen, Amitai Touval offers a touching an...