Tourists and Tourism : A Reader

by Gmelch, Sharon Bohn

• ISBN13: 9781577663065
• ISBN10: 1577663063
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
One: Tourism and the Tourist Experience
Why Tourism Matters	3	(20)
Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Secular Ritual: A General Theory of Tourism	23	(12)
Nelson H. H. Graburn
The Global Beach	35	(20)
Orvar Lofgren
Sightseeing and Social Structure: The Moral Integration of Modernity	55	(16)
Dean MacCannell
Tourism and Terrorism: An Intimate Equivalence	71	(20)
Peter Phipps
Narrating the Tourist Experience	91	(20)
Orvar Lofgren
Two: Marketing Culture and Identity
Rereading the Language of Japanese Tourism	111	(16)
Brian Moeran
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism	127	(30)
Edward M. Bruner
Culture by the Pound: An Anthropological Perspective on Tourism as Cultural Commoditization	157	(14)
Davydd J. Greenwood
Whose New Orleans? Music's Place in the Packaging of New Orleans for Tourism	171	(12)
Connie Zeanah Atkinson
In a Sense Abroad: Theme Parks and Simulated Tourism	183	(12)
Lawrence Mintz
Three: When Tourists and Locals Meet
Tourism and Anthropology in a Postmodern World	195	(24)
Fredderick Errington
Deborah Gewertz
Tourism in the Balinese Borderzone	219	(20)
Edward M. Bruner
Power Dynamics in Tourism: A Foucauldian Approach	239	(14)
So-Min Cheong
Marc L. Miller
Coping with Mass Cultural Tourism: Structure and Strategies	253	(14)
Jeremy Boissevain
Tourism and Its Discontents: Suri-Tourist Encounters in Ethiopia	267	(22)
Jon G. Abbink
``Let `em Loose'': Pueblo Indian Management of Tourism	289	(14)
Jill D. Sweet
When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet: Encounters within Sosua, the Dominican Republic	303	(14)
Denise Brennan
Romance Tourism: Gender, Race, and Power in Jamaica	317	(22)
Deborah Pruitt
Suzanne LaFont
Four: The Impact and Implications of Tourism
Sailing into the Sunset: The Cruise-ship Industry	339	(20)
Polly Pattullo
The Role of the Elite in the Development of Tourism	359	(14)
M. Estellie Smith
Sherpa Culture and the Tourist Torrent	373	(16)
James F. Fisher
Backpacking: Diversity and Change	389	(18)
Erik Cohen
Giving a Grade to Costa Rica's Green Tourism	407	(12)
Martha Honey
Let's Go Europe: What Student Tourists Really Learn	419	(14)
George Gmelch
Tourism, Europe, and Identity	433	(10)
John Urry
Rethinking Tourism	443	(14)
Deborah McLaren
Appendix A: Contributors	457	(6)
Appendix B: Documentary Films about Tourism	463	(4)
Appendix C: Tourist Guidelines	467