Thinking Through Tourism

The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes.

An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospitality, sex and tourism, enchantment, colonial and neo-colonial consumption, and the relation between tourism and gender and ethnic boundaries, as well as questions of global, economic and cultural systems, modernism and nationalism. The book also covers practical and policy issues relating to urban, rural and coastal planning and development.

Thinking through Tourism assesses the enormous potential contribution that analysis of tourism can offer to mainstream anthropological thinking. The volume opens up new avenues for enquiry and is an essential resource for students and scholars of anthropology, geography, tourism, sociology and related disciplines.

About the Authors/Editors

Julie Scott is Senior Research Fellow in Culture, Tourism and Development at London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University. Tom Selwyn is Professorial Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Margaret E. Kenna, Swansea University

1. Introduction: Thinking Through Tourism - Framing the Volume

Julie Scott, London Metropolitan University and Tom Selwyn, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

2. Contours of a Nation: Being British in Mallorca

Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University

3. The Sex of Tourism? Bodies Under Suspicion in Paradise

Susan Frohlick, University of Manitoba ,Winnipeg, Canada

4. Belonging at the Cottage

Julia Harrison, Trent University, Ontario, Canada

5. Tourists, Developers and Civil Society: On the Commodification of Malta's Landscapes

Jeremy Boissevain, University of Amsterdam

6. Enchanted Sites - Prosaic Interests. Traders of the Bazaar in Aleppo

Annika Rabo, Stockholm University

7. Tropical Island Gardens and Formations of Modernity

David Picard, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal

8. Of Jews, Christians, and Travellers in Crete: Recovered ‘Roots', Unwanted ‘Heritage'

Vassiliki Yiakoumaki, University of Thessaly (Volos), Greece

9. Tourist Attractions, Cultural Icons, Sites of Sacred Encounter: Engagements with Malta's Neolithic Temples

Kathryn Rountree, Massey University

10. ‘Hotel Royal' and other Spaces of Hospitality: Tourists and Migrants in the Mediterranean

Ramona Lenz, University of Frankfurt/Main

11. Anthropology, Tourism and Intervention?

Simone Abram, Leeds Metropolitan University

Postlude

Nelson Graburn, Hearst Museum, Berkeley

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Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
Jun 2010
288pp, 20 b&w illustrations
9781847885319

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"This volume proves anthropology's engagement with tourism can lead to more than a marriage of convenience. Tourism challenges ethnographers by requiring them to deal with porous culture boundaries, multiple bodies in motion, hybridity, and complex new forms of reflexivity in "tradition," "ritual," and "identity." The reports assembled here more than meet these tests. It is a pleasure to encounter anthropology's classic concepts and methods retooled and newly relevant for understanding our changing world."
Dean MacCannell, Environmental Design & Landscape Architecture, University of California, Davis

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