"He has found that it is no longer sufficient simply to be a man in order to be perceived as one. Now it is often necessary to act out reality and truth."


MacCannell,Dean. 1976. Staged Authenticity. In The Tourist: a New Theory of the Leisure Class. New Youk: Schocken Books, p92.



"Or, seen from another angle, what gets sustained and refigured in the attempt to locate a humanist essence within the commodification of human relations?"


Reiker, Martina. 1993. Narrating the Post-Colonial Everyday: An Interrogation of The Good Woman of Bangkok. Visual Anthropology Review 9(1): 116-22, p117.

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