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Native tours : the anthropology of travel and tourism / Erve Chambers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Second editionDescription: xi, 140 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1577666267
  • 9781577666264
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.4 22
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 C44 2010
Contents:
Preface -- 1. From Travel to Tourism -- Travel in Historical Perspective -- The Advent of Modern Tourism -- The Tourist as Subject -- Case Study: Touring the American Southwest -- 2. Tourism, Society, and the Political Economy -- Tourism and Economic Development -- The Distribution of Economic Costs and Benefits -- Tourism as Work -- Tourism Policies and Plans -- Transnational Dimensions of Tourism -- The Politics of Representation -- Social Consequences of Tourism -- Tourism and Gender -- Case Study: Tirol and Rural Tourism -- 3. Nature, Tourism, and the Environment -- Environmental Impacts of Tourism -- Tourism to Natural Places -- People as Nature -- Ecotourism -- Case Study: Ecotourism in Belize -- 4. Tourism and Culture -- Tradition, Authenticity, and Modernity -- Tourism and Ethnicity -- The Language of Tourism -- Material Culture, Performance, and the Built Environment -- Tourism in Place and Space -- Tourism in Global and Local Perspective -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. From Travel to Tourism -- Travel in Historical Perspective -- The Advent of Modern Tourism -- The Tourist as Subject -- Case Study: Touring the American Southwest -- 2. Tourism, Society, and the Political Economy -- Tourism and Economic Development -- The Distribution of Economic Costs and Benefits -- Tourism as Work -- Tourism Policies and Plans -- Transnational Dimensions of Tourism -- The Politics of Representation -- Social Consequences of Tourism -- Tourism and Gender -- Case Study: Tirol and Rural Tourism -- 3. Nature, Tourism, and the Environment -- Environmental Impacts of Tourism -- Tourism to Natural Places -- People as Nature -- Ecotourism -- Case Study: Ecotourism in Belize -- 4. Tourism and Culture -- Tradition, Authenticity, and Modernity -- Tourism and Ethnicity -- The Language of Tourism -- Material Culture, Performance, and the Built Environment -- Tourism in Place and Space -- Tourism in Global and Local Perspective -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

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