Tourism Imaginaries : Anthropological Approaches

It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, "tourism imaginaries" have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.-- Provided by Publisher Introduction. Toward An Anthropology Of Tourism Imaginaries / Noel B. Salazar And Nelson H. H. Graburn -- Toward Symmetric Treatment Of Imaginaries: Nudity And Payment In Tourism To Papua's Treehouse People / Rupert Stasch -- Scorn Or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization, And Ambivalence In Emberá Indigenous Tourism / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries In Tourism / Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Myth Management In Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales From Southwest China And Beyond / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Tourism Moral Imaginaries And The Making Of Community / João Afonso Baptista -- The Imaginaire Dialectic And The Refashioning Of Pietrelcina / Michael A. Di Giovine -- Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales / Federica Ferraris -- The Imagined Nation: The Mystery Of The Endurance Of The Colonial Imaginary In Postcolonial Times / Paula Mota Santos -- Belize Ephemera, Affect, And Emergent Imaginaries / Kenneth Little -- Envisioning The Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration Of Touristic Imaginings Of The Wild In The Netherlands / Anke Tonnaer -- Afterword. Locating Imaginaries In The Anthropology Of Tourism / Naomi Leite. Edited By Noel B. Salazar And Nelson H. H. Graburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.