ISBN:
9786612656873
,
9781845411268
,
9781282656871
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 219 p)
Edition:
2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Tourism and cultural change
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tourism, Power and Culture
DDC:
306.4/819
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
;
Tourism Anthropological aspects
;
Tourism
Abstract:
Tourism as an experience and an industry is infused by culture in its various dimensions, and influenced throughout by relationships of power. This work explores issues such as terrorism, ethnicity and World Heritage Sites, and the role of the analysis of power in tourism studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Preface; Prologue; Chapter 1 Tourism, Power and Culture: Insights from Anthropology; Part 1 Tourism and the Power Struggle for Resources; Chapter 2 Water Sports: A Tug of War over the River; Chapter 3 Heritage and Tourism: Contested Discourses in Djenne, a World Heritage Site in Mali; Chapter 4 Power, Culture and the Production of Heritage; Chapter 5 Cultural Perspectives on Tourism and Terrorism; Part 2 Tourism and Culture: Presentation, Promotion and the Manipulation of Image
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 Tourists and Indigenous Culture as Resources: Lessons from Embera Cultural Tourism in PanamaChapter 7 On 'Black Culture' and 'Black Bodies': State Discourses, Tourism and Public Policies in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Chapter 8 Tourism and the Making of Ethnic Citizenship in Belize; Chapter 9 Tourism and its Others: Tourists, Traders and Fishers in Jamaica; Epilogue; Chapter 10 Power in Tourism: Tourism in Power; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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