Great expectations : imagination and anticipation in tourism / edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos. - vi, 207 pages ; 24 cm. - New directions in anthropology ; v. 34 . - New directions in anthropology ; v. 34. .

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.

0857452770 9780857452771

2011029397


Tourism--Psychological aspects
Travelers--Psychology

G155.A1 / G74 2011

306.4819