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Great expectations : imagination and anticipation in tourism / edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in anthropology ; v. 34.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011Description: vi, 207 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0857452770
  • 9780857452771
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4819 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 G74 2011
Contents:
Introduction : The play of expectation in tourism / Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Success and access to knowledge in the tourist-local encounter : confrontations with the unexpected in a Turkish community / Hazel Tucker -- Emberá indigenous tourism and the world of expectations / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- The paradox of gaze and resistance in native American cultural tourism : an Alaskan case study / Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Forward into the past : 'digging' the Balearic Islands / Jacqueline Waldren -- On difference, desire and the aesthetics of the unexpected : The white Masai in Kenyan tourism / George Paul Meiu -- Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' : tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor / Jonathan Skinner -- The coach fellas : tourism performance and expectation in Ireland / Kelli Ann Malone -- Going on holiday to imagine war : the western front battlefields as sites of commemoration and contestation / Jennifer Iles -- Touring the dead : imagination, embodiment and affect in Gunther von Hagen's Body world exhibitions / Jane C. Desmond -- Afterword : the tour as imagined, lived, experienced and told / Edward M. Bruner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The play of expectation in tourism / Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Success and access to knowledge in the tourist-local encounter : confrontations with the unexpected in a Turkish community / Hazel Tucker -- Emberá indigenous tourism and the world of expectations / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- The paradox of gaze and resistance in native American cultural tourism : an Alaskan case study / Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Forward into the past : 'digging' the Balearic Islands / Jacqueline Waldren -- On difference, desire and the aesthetics of the unexpected : The white Masai in Kenyan tourism / George Paul Meiu -- Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' : tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor / Jonathan Skinner -- The coach fellas : tourism performance and expectation in Ireland / Kelli Ann Malone -- Going on holiday to imagine war : the western front battlefields as sites of commemoration and contestation / Jennifer Iles -- Touring the dead : imagination, embodiment and affect in Gunther von Hagen's Body world exhibitions / Jane C. Desmond -- Afterword : the tour as imagined, lived, experienced and told / Edward M. Bruner.

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