Między standaryzacją a indywidualizacją. Rzecz jako znak przeżycia turystycznego

Abstract

The subject of the article is a role of an object in documenting a touristic experience. The author attempts to classify things constituting the material forms, preserving, by its nature volatile and transient emotions actualized in the current touristic practices. By bringing a differentiated set of such object, she analyses the process of cultural translation of touristic experience into narrations included into the so-called souvenirs. Their multitude and dissimilarity are determined by the polar opposites - standardisation, the products of which are objects unified and predictable, and individualisation, by the effect of which the sign of the tourist's experience is souvenirs that are personalized or radically atypical, established by individual choice and symbolising individual experience of a uniqueness of the visited place.