Tourists and tourism : a reader / Sharon Bohn Gmelch.

Author/creator Gmelch, Sharon
Format Book
Publication InfoLong Grove, IL : Waveland Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Why tourism matters / Sharon Bohn Gmelch -- Secular ritual : a general theory of tourism / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- The global beach / Orvar Löfgren -- Sightseeing and social structure : the moral integration of modernity / Dean MacCannell -- Tourism and terrorism : an intimate equivalence / Peter Phipps -- Narrating the tourist experience / Orvar Löfgren -- Rereading the language of Japanese tourism / Brian Moeran -- The Maasai and the Lion King : authenticity, nationalism, and globalization in African tourism / Edward M. Bruner -- Culture by the pound : an anthropological perspective on tourism as cultural commoditization / Davydd J. Greenwood -- Whose New Orleans? : music's place in the packaging of New Orleans for tourism / Connie Zeanah Atkinson -- In a sense abroad : theme parks and simulated tourism / Lawrence Mintz -- Tourism and anthropology in a postmodern world / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz -- Tourism in the Balinese borderzone / Edward M. Bruner -- Power dynamics in tourism : a Foucauldian approach / So-Min Cheong and Marc L. Miller -- Coping with mass cultural tourism : structure and strategies / Jeremy Boissevain -- Tourism and its discontents : Suri-tourist encounters in Ethiopia / Jon G. Abbink -- "Let 'em loose" : Pueblo Indian management of tourism / Jill D. Sweet -- When sex tourists and sex workers meet : encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic / Denise Brennan -- Romance tourism : gender, race, and power in Jamaica / Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont -- Sailing into the sunset : the cruise-ship industry / Polly Pattullo -- The role of the elite in the development of tourism / M. Estellie Smith -- Sherpa culture and the tourist torrent / James F. Fisher -- Backpacking : diversity and change / Erik Cohen -- Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism / Martha Honey -- Let's go Europe : what student tourists really learn / George Gmelch -- Tourism, Europe, and identity / John Urry -- Rethinking tourism / Deborah McLaren.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2004300153
ISBN1577663063 (pbk.)
ISBN9781577663065 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks G 155.A1 G5 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold