Culture on tour : ethnographies of travel / Edward M. Bruner.

Author/creator Bruner, Edward M.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Descriptionx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction : travel stories told and retold -- Maasai on the lawn : tourist realism in East Africa (with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett) -- The Maasai and the Lion King : authenticity, nationalism, and globalization in African tourism -- Slavery and the return of the Black Diaspora : tourism in Ghana -- Lincoln's New Salem as a contested site -- Abraham Lincoln as authentic reproduction : a critique of postmodernism -- Dialogic narration and the paradoxes of Masada (with Phyllis Gorfain) -- The Balinese borderzone -- Taman Mini : self-constructions in an ethnic theme park in Indonesia -- Reincorporations : return to Sumatra, 1957, 1997.
Local noteLittle-348020--305131054225V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-290) and index.
LCCN 2004007653
ISBN0226077624 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226077628 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226077632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226077635 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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