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Bourbon Street, b-drinking, and the sexual economy of tourism /
- Title
- Bourbon Street, b-drinking, and the sexual economy of tourism / Angela R. Demovic.
- Author
- Demovic, Angela R.,
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xvi, 189 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Combining historic and ethnographic research, Angela R. Demovic reveals the intersection of alcohol sales and stripteasing in the French Quarter. She demonstrates how B-drinkers-workers hired by bar owners to flirt with patrons who buy them drinks-maintain agency and create community in a tourism economy.
- Series Statement
- Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society
- Uniform Title
- Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society.
- Subjects
- Tourism
- Tourism > Social aspects
- Drinking behavior
- Carnival
- Sex-oriented businesses
- Tourism > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Louisiana > New Orleans
- Drinking behavior > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Sex-oriented businesses > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Intro; Contents; Entering "The Field"; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Why B-drinking Works; 2 B-girls in Public Discourses; 3 Finding B-girls in the Ideoscape; 4 The Cultural Geography of Power and B-drinking in the 1990s; 5 Understanding the Perspectives of B-girls at the Turn of the Century; 6 Dangers; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- ISBN
- 9781498531320
- 1498531326
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library