Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-760-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as personal imaginings of the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salazar, Noel B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Foreword: Circulating Culture

by Edward Bruner

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Preparing a Roadmap

Chapter 2. Two Destinations, One Destiny

Chapter 3. 'Seducation'

Chapter 4. Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds

Chapter 5. Guiding Roles and Rules

Chapter 6. Fantasy Meets Reality

Chapter 7. Coming Home

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Salazar, Noel B.
Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local–global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.