From temporary migrants to permanent attractions : tourism, cultural heritage, and Afro-Antillean identities in Panama / Carla Guerrón Montero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guerrón-Montero, Carla María, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Panama.

Black people.

Antilleans--Race identity--Panama.

Antilleans.

Black people--Panama--Social conditions.

Antilleans--Panama--Social conditions.

Foreign workers, Antillean--Panama.

Foreign workers, Antillean.

Tourism--Social aspects--Panama.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--Panama--Bocas del Toro (Province).

National characteristics, Panamanian.

Transnationalism.

Race relations.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Black people--Race identity.

Panama--Race relations.

Panama.

Bocas del Toro (Panama : Province)--Social conditions.

Bocas del Toro (Panama : Province).

Black people--Social conditions.

Panama--Bocas del Toro (Province).

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A new reading of Panama's nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Panameñismo and Panameñidad : converging ideologies in the construction of Panamanian national identity

Panama's temporary migrants : the Afro-Antillean presence in the national narrative

"Panama is more than a canal" : the twenty-first century and the Panamanian tourism industry

Touring the archipelago of Bocas del Toro

Afro-Antilleanness represented : museums, theme parks, and the manufacturing of history

The permanent attractions: music and cuisine as malleable "ethnic commodities"

Conclusions: Afro-Antillean identity construction, international tourism, and the new symbols of Panameñidad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817320614

081732061X

OCLC:

1124906183