ISSN:
0308-275X
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Critique of anthropology
Publ. der Quelle:
London : Sage
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 37, No. 4 (2017), p. 418-439
DDC:
390
Abstract:
For residents of Upper Jidao, a Miao village in Guizhou Province, China, the past decade and a half of tourism development in the region can be boiled down to one single suggestion: make a spectacle of yourselves. The spectacle of the rural and the ethnic in tourism – the finely dressed performers, the renovated village architecture – is usually considered the necessary means to the desired end result of boosting local economies. In this essay, I examine how architectural renderings constitute a world-making practice of and in rural ethnic China and how they illuminate underlying ideologies about sociocultural difference. By analyzing these drawings alongside ethnographic observations from long-term fieldwork in the village, this essay sheds light on the embedded relations of power and agentive potential enabled by this kind of spectacular development.
Note:
Copyright: © The Author(s) 2017
DOI:
10.1177/0308275X17735368
URL:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308275X17735368
URL:
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1977557903
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