In search of hospitality : theoretical perspectives and debates / edited by Conrad Lashley and Alison Morrison.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Towards a theoretical understanding / Conrad Lashley -- Anthropology of hospitality / Tom Selwyn -- Philosophy of hospitableness / Elizabeth Telfer -- Hospitality trades : a social history / John K. Walton -- Putting up? Gender, hospitality and performance / Jane Darke and Craig Gurney -- Home and commercialized hospitality / Paul Lynch and Doreen MacWhannell -- Mediated meanings of hospitality : television personality food programmes / Sandie Randall -- Hospitality and hospitality management / Bob Brotherton and Roy C. Wood -- Managing hospitality operations / Andrew Lockwood and Peter Jones -- Social scientific ways of knowing hospitality / David Botterill -- Humour in commercial hospitality settings / Stephen Ball and Keith Johnson -- Consuming hospitality : learning from post-modernism? / Alistair Williams -- Consuming hospitality on holiday / Hazel Andrews -- Working in the hospitality industry / Yvonne Guerrier and Amel Adib -- Education for hospitality / David Airey and John Tribe.