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Tourists and Tourism

A Reader

 

Sharon Bohn Gmelch

 

This new collection provides an authoritative and lively introduction to global tourism. Twenty-seven essays by a wide array of North American and international scholars, span the globe and are organized by four themes: Tourism and the Tourist Experience, Marketing Culture and Identity, When Tourists and Locals Meet, and The Impact and Implications of Tourism.  Stimulating and comprehensive, Tourists and Tourism is a valuable examination of a major social and economic phenomenon. Articles were selected with readability in mind and the collection is enriched by photographs.

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$30.95 list, 478 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-306-3

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-306-5

© 2004

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“This book is probably the best single English-language anthology of anthropological and sociological research on tourism available.” — Nelson H. Graburn, University of California, Berkeley
 

Table of Contents

 

Part I. TOURISM AND THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE

1. Why Tourism Matters (Sharon Bohn Gmelch)

2. Secular Ritual: A General Theory of Tourism (Nelson H. H. Graburn)

3. The Global Beach (Orvar Löfgren)

4. Sightseeing and Social Structure: The Moral Integration of Modernity (Dean MacCannell)

5. Tourism and Terrorism: An Intimate Equivalence (Peter Phipps)

6. Narrating the Tourist Experience (Orvar Löfgren)

Part II. MARKETING CULTURE AND IDENTITY

7. Rereading the Language of Japanese Tourism (Brian Moeran)

8. The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism (Edward M. Bruner)

9. Culture by the Pound: An Anthropological Perspective on Tourism as Cultural Commoditization (Davydd J. Greenwood)

10. Whose New Orleans? Music's Place in the Packaging of New Orleans for Tourism (Connie Zeanah Atkinson)

11. In a Sense Abroad: Theme Parks and Simulated Tourism (Lawrence Mintz)

Part III. WHEN TOURISTS AND LOCALS MEET

12. Tourism and Anthropology in a Postmodern World (Fredderick Errington and Deborah Gewertz)

13. Tourism in the Balinese Borderzone (Edward M. Bruner)

14. Power Dynamics in Tourism: A Foucauldian Approach (So-Min Cheong and Marc L. Miller)

15. Coping with Mass Cultural Tourism: Structure and Strategies (Jeremy Boissevain)

16. Tourism and Its Discontents: Suri-Tourist Encounters in Ethiopia (Jon G. Abbink)

17. "Let 'em Loose": Pueblo Indian Management of Tourism (Jill D. Sweet)

18. When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic (Denise Brennan)

19. Romance Tourism: Gender, Race, and Power in Jamaica (Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont)

Part IV. THE IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS OF TOURISM

20. Sailing into the Sunset: The Cruise-Ship Industry (Polly Pattullo)

21. The Role of the Elite in the Development of Tourism (M. Estellie Smith)

22. Sherpa Culture and the Tourist Torrent (James F. Fisher)

23. Backpacking: Diversity and Change (Erik Cohen)

24. Giving a Grade to Costa Rica's Green Tourism (Martha Honey)

25. Let's Go Europe: What Student Tourists Really Learn (George Gmelch)

26. Tourism, Europe, and Identity (John Urry)

27. Rethinking Tourism (Deborah McLaren)

Appendix A: Contributors

Appendix B: Documentary Films about Tourism

Appendix C: Tourist Guidelines