Research Catalog

Title

Tourists and tourism : a reader / Sharon Bohn Gmelch.

Author

Gmelch, Sharon.

Publication

Long Grove, IL : Waveland Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xi, 478 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Tourism
• Tourists

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

One: Tourism and the tourist experience Why tourism matters / Sharon Bohn Gmelch -- Secular ritual: A general theory of tourism / Nelson H.H. Graburm -- 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 -- Two: Marketing culture and identity 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 -- Three: When tourists and locals meet Tourism and anthropology in a postmodern world / Fredderick 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 Boissevian -- 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 / Debroah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont -- Four: The impact and implications of tourism 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 -- Lest go Europe: What student tourists really learn / George Gmelch -- Tourism, Europe, and identity / John Urry -- Rethinking tourism / Debroah McLaren.

ISBN

1577663063 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004300153

OCLC

• ocm53926812
• SCSB-1413580

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library