Touring Pacific cultures / edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexeyeff, Kalissa, author.

Contributor:

Alexeyeff, Kalissa, editor.

Taylor, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and tourism--Oceania.

Culture and tourism.

Tourism--Oceania.

Tourism.

Cultural industries--Oceania.

Cultural industries.

Oceania--Cultural policy.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2016

Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

‘This collection is a welcome addition to tourism studies, or perhaps we should say post- or para-tourism. The essays bring out many facets and experiences too quickly bundled under a single label and focused exclusively on “destinations” visited by “outsiders”. Tourism, we see here, actively involves many different populations, societies, and economies, a range of local/global/regional engagements that can be both destructive and creative. Western outsiders aren’t the only ones on the move. Unequal power, (neo)colonial exploitation and capitalist commodification are very much part of the picture. But so are desire, adventure, pleasure, cultural reinvention and economic development. The effect, overall, is an attitude of alert, critical ambivalence with respect to a proliferating historical phenomenon. A bumpy and rewarding ride.’ — James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz".

Contents:

Departures and arrivals in touring Pacific cultures / John Taylor and Kalissa Alexeyeff

Hawai'i: prelude to a journey / Selina Tusitala Marsh

Darkness and light in black and white: travelling mission imagery from the New Hebrides / Lamont Lindstrom

Tourism / William C. Clarke

The cruise ship / Frances Steel

Pitcairn and the Bounty story / Maria Amoamo

Guys like Gaugain / Selina Tusitala Marsh

Statued (stat you?) traditions / Selina Tusitala Marsh

Detouring Kwajalein: at home between coral and concrete in the Marshall Islands / Greg Dvorak

Yuki Kihara's Culture For Sale and the history of Pacific cultural performance / Mandy Treagus

Native realities in an imaginary world: contemporary Kanaka Maoli art at Aulani, a Disney resort & spa / A. Marata Tamaira

Moving towers: worlding the spectacle of masculinities between South Pentecost and Munich / Margaret Jolly

Writing home on the Pari and touring in Pacific studies / Jo Diamond

Performing indigenous sovereignties across the Pacific / Peter Phipps

New Pacific portraits: voices from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts / curated by Katerina Teaiwa and Joseph Vile

Great works / Courtney Sina Meredith

Ibu and Tufuga / Courtney Sina Meredith

Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian tourists in Seattle / Miriam Kahn, Teana Gooding and Moenau Holman

Carnet de voyage en Irlande / Flora Aurima-Devatine

A trip from Port Moresby to Suva / Bomai D. Witne

Performing cannibalism in the South Seas / Tracey Banivanua Mar

Touring ‘Real Life’? Authenticity and village-based tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea / Michelle MacCarthy

Suva, November '97 / Anita Jowitt

Pikinini in paradise: photography, souvenirs and the 'Child Native' in tourism / John Taylor

Bandit Singsing: the tourism unexperience / John Cox

The friendly islands? Tonga's ambivalent relationship with tourism / Helen Lee

Re-purposing paradise: tourism, image and affect / Kalissa Alexeyef

Local tourist on a bus ride home / Audrey Brown-Pereira

Mixed bag of tropical sweets sitting outside the Hotel R & R / Audrey Brown-Pereira

Fiji: reflections in the infinity pool / John Connell

Afterword: ambivalence, ambiguity and the 'wicked problem' of Pacific tourist studies / Jane C. Desmond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 21, 2017).

ISBN:

9781922144263

1922144266

OCLC:

931527699

Publisher Number:

10.22459/TPC.12.2016