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Title:

Global tourism : cultural heritage and economic encounters / edited by Sarah Lyon and E. Christian Wells.

Publisher:

AltaMira Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Heritage tourism.
Culture and globalization.
Economic anthropology.

Other Authors:

Lyon, Sarah.
Wells, E. Christian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The effects of tourism and western consumption on the gendered production and distribution of Bogolan : development initiatives and Malian women as agents for change / Sarah Lockridge. Shifting values and meanings of heritage : from cultural appropriation to tourism interpretation and back / Noel B. Salazar ; Mayanizing tourism on Roatan Island, Honduras : archaeological perspectives on heritage, development, and indigeneity / Alejandro J. Figueroa, Whitney A. Goodwin, and E. Christian Wells ; Shaping heritage to serve development : bureaucratic conflict and local agency at two Chinese heritage sites / Robert Shepherd -- Part II. Economic encounters in touristic spheres. Of sales pitches and speech genres : peddling personality on the riverfront of Banaras / Jenny Huberman ; Tourism as transaction : commerce and heritage on the Inca Trail / Keely Maxwell ; Spiritual spaces, marginal places : the commodification of a Nalu sacred grove / Brandon D. Lundy ; Becoming Tongan again : generalized reciprocity meets tourism in Tonga / Patricia L. Delaney and Paul A. Rivera ; Women, entrepreneurship, and empowerment : Black-owned township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa / Katrina T. Greene -- Part III. Redefining tourism's "impact." Sacrificing cultural capital for sustainability : identity, class, and the Swedish staycation / Cindy Isenhour ; Reproductive tourism : health care crisis reifies global stratified reproduction / Amy Speier ; The uses of ecotourism : articulating conservation and development agendas in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina ; Who owns ecotourism? : the Ecotourismo Seri case / Diana Luque ... [et al.] ; The effects of tourism and western consumption on the gendered production and distribution of Bogolan : development initiatives and Malian women as agents for change / Sarah Lockridge.

Series:

Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs ; no. 30.

ISBN:

0759120935 (electronic)
9780759120938 (electronic)
0759120919 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759120914 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)758392635

LCCN:

2011048746

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)