What is it about?
Critical analysis of tourists drawn to Toraja highlands by death rituals and so-called zombies. Examines Western willingness to imagine post-colonial nations such as Indonesia as dark tourism play zones and examines the rise of these new forms of dark tourism in Indonesia. Introduces new concepts related to these pursuits.
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Adds to our critical understanding of pursuits of affluent urban global tourists in post-colonial nations, illuminating why they might entertain fantasies that zombies might exist in "tribal" and post-colonial settings.
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This page is a summary of: Leisure in the “Land of the Walking Dead”: Western Mortuary Tourism, the Internet, and Zombie Pop Culture in Toraja, Indonesia, January 2018, University Press of Colorado,
DOI: 10.5876/9781607327295.c004.
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