The culture of tourism, the tourism of culture : selling the past to the present in the American Southwest / edited by Hal K. Rothman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism--Southwest, New.

Heritage tourism.

New Southwest.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]

Summary:

The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one where people live and make a living. This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region's meaning on the larger stage of national life. Contributors include Chris Wilson, Phoebe Kropp, and Rina Swentzell, who explicate tourist sites in Albuquerque, California's Camino Real, and Taos. Essays that deal with collecting and belonging include discussions of scrapbooks, souvenirs, and virtual tourism on the Internet by Marguerite Shaffer, Leah Dilworth, and Erika Bsumek. William L. Bryan, Jr., a leading ecotourism operator, provides perspectives on a different kind of tourism and Susan Guyette and David White argue for the autonomy of native people in presenting their experience to visitors. The final essays examine how places are transformed by tourism. Sylvia Rodriguez explores the power dynamics of tourism, Char Miller chronicles the way San Antonio has become a colonial town, and volume editor Hal Rothman presents Las Vegas as a place where authenticity and inauthenticity are purposefully indistinguishable.

Contents:

Introduction: Tourism and the Future / Hal K. Rothman 1

Ethnic/Sexual Personas in Tricultural New Mexico / Chris Wilson 12

In Search of History and Romance on El Camino Real / Phoebs S. Kropp 38

Anglo Artists and the Creation of Pueblo Worlds / Rina Swentzell 66

Playing American: The Southwestern Scrapbooks of Mildred E. Baker / Marguerite S. Shaffer 72

"Handmade by an American Indian": Souvenirs and the Cultural Economy of Southwestern Tourism / Leah Dilworth 101

Exchanging Places: Virtual Tourism, Vicarious Travel, and the Consumption of Southwestern Indian Artifacts / Erika Marie Bsumek 118

Appropriate Cultural Tourism

Can It Exist? Searching for an Answer: Three Arizona Case Studies / William L. Bryan, Jr. 140

Reducing the Impacts of Tourism through Cross-Cultural Planning / Susan Guyette, David White 164

Tourism, Difference, and Power in the Borderlands / Sylvia Rodriguez 185

Tourist Trap: Visitors and the Modern San Antonio Economy / Char Miller 206

Cultural Tourism and the Future: What the New Las Vegas Tells Us about Ourselves / Hal Rothman 229.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826329284

OCLC:

51306158