Another good history, this time from sociological perspective, with a healthy dash of phenomenological topophilia a la Bachelard. The residents each summer: he talks about the seasonal residents. They get a “metamorphosis” that fulfills some desire, a mystic human transformation (“transhumance”). It’s not about travel, but transplantation: different for the vagabond tourist who moves in order to move more. Some move in order to plant anew, while other people in leisure move so they can just keep on moving. This is very cool. Summer resident versus vagabond. His study is about contemporary folks. Beach = “Society puts itself on display, with its rites and symbols….rules and transgressions…panoply of emotions” 6. Unfortunately, he LITERALLY says the beach is a tabula rasa, reproducing the error of thinking space is an empty given, a mere placeholder where things happen. And his choice of seaside was b/c he says it’s relatively unstudied. Thanx.