Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches
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Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches
Berghahn Books, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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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
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