Thinking Through Tourism

by Scott, Julie; Selwyn, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781847885319
• ISBN10: 1847885314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction: Thinking Through Tourism - Framing the Volume	p. 1
Contours of a Nation: Being British in Mallorca	p. 27
The Sex of Tourism? Bodies under Suspicion in Paradise	p. 51
Belonging at the Cottage	p. 71
Tourists, Developers and Civil Society: On the Commodification of Malta's Landscapes	p. 93
Enchanted Sites, Prosaic Interests: Traders of the Bazaar in Aleppo	p. 117
Tropical Island Gardens and Formations of Modernity	p. 139
Of Jews, Christians and Travellers in Crete: Recovered 'Roots', Unwanted 'Heritage'	p. 161
Tourist Attractions, Cultural Icons, Sites of Sacred Encounter: Engagements with Malta's Neolithic Temples	p. 183
'Hotel Royal' and other Spaces of Hospitality: Tourists and Migrants in the Mediterranean	p. 209
Anthropology, Tourism and Intervention?	p. 231
Postlude	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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