ISBN:
1789206464
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9781789206463
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 190 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
New directions in anthropology volume 45
Series Statement:
New directions in anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Little, Kenneth (William Kenneth) On the nervous edge of an impossible paradise
DDC:
306.4/819097282
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
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Ethnology
;
Ethnology
;
Manners and customs
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Tourism ; Social aspects
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Ethnologie
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Sitte
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Tourismus
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Belize Social life and customs
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Belize
;
Belize
Abstract:
Introduction. Writing stories of "make-Belize" -- "For the time is at hand," beast-time somet'ings -- Impossible tropics -- Richie's tourists -- Nowhere paradise -- Belize ephemera -- Belize blues -- Parca's picks -- Epilogue. Belize fabulations.
Abstract:
"There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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