Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches / edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn ; contributors Joao Afonso Baptista [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salazar, Noel B., 1973- editor.

Graburn, Nelson H. H., editor.

Baptista, João Afonso, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Anthropological aspects.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, "tourism imaginaries" have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries th

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries; Part I - Imaginaries of Peoples; Chapter 1 - Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to Papua's ""Treehouse People""; Chapter 2 - Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization, and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism; Chapter 3 - Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism; Chapter 4 - Myth Management in Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond; Chapter 5 - Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community

Part II - Imaginaries of PlacesChapter 6 - The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina; Chapter 7 - Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales; Chapter 8 - The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times; Chapter 9 - Belize Ephemerea, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries; Chapter 10 - Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands; Afterword: Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-236-1

1-78238-368-9

OCLC:

881627641