ISBN:
9780813554075
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081355408X
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9781461934912
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1461934915
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0813554071
,
9780813554068
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9780813554082
,
0813554063
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 227 pages)
Series Statement:
Rutgers series in childhood studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Huberman, Jennifer Ambivalent encounters
DDC:
331.3/18
Keywords:
Tourists
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Social interaction
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Tourism
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Child labor
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Tourists
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Social interaction
;
Tourism
;
Child labor
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Labor
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Labor & Industrial Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Child labor
;
Social interaction
;
Tourism
;
Tourists
;
Tourismus
;
Kinderarbeit
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Electronic books
;
Varanasi
;
Tourismus
;
Kinderarbeit
Abstract:
This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction
Abstract:
This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index
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