Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches

Author(s)

• Salazar, Noel B.
• Graburn, Nelson H. H.

Bibliographic Information

Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches

edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H.H. Graburn

Berghahn Books, 2014

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn PART I: IMAGINARIES OF PEOPLES Chapter 1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to New Guinea's "Treehouse People" Rupert Stasch Chapter 2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization and Ambivalence in Embera Indigenous Tourism Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism Alexis Celeste Bunten Chapter 4. Myth Management in Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond Margaret Byrne Swain Chapter 5. Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community Joao Afonso Baptista PART II: IMAGINARIES OF PLACES Chapter 6. The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina Michael A. Di Giovine Chapter 7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales Federica Ferraris Chapter 8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times Paula Mota Santos Chapter 9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries Kenneth Little Chapter 10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands Anke Tonnaer Afterword: Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism Naomi Leite Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BB16511768
• ISBN:
  • 9781782383673
• LCCN: 2013041903
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 292 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : G155.A1
  • DC23 : 306.4/819
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tourism -- Anthropological aspects