Synopses & Reviews
The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes. An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as monastic hospitality, sex and tourism, concepts of enchantment, colonial consumers, boundaries created by gender and ethnicity, as well as issues like consumerism, modernism, and nationalism. The book also covers to practical and policy issues related to urban, rural, and coastal planning and development. Thinking Through Tourism assesses the enormous potential contribution that analyses of tourism can offer to the mainstream of anthropological thinking. The volume opens up new avenues for enquiry and is an essential resource for students and scholars of anthropology, geography, tourism, sociology and related disciplines.
Review
"This volume proves anthropologys engagement with tourism can lead to more than a marriage of convenience. Tourism challenges ethnographers by requiring them to deal with porous culture boundaries, multiple bodies in motion, hybridity, and complex new forms of reflexivity in “tradition,” “ritual,” and “identity.” The reports assembled here more than meet these tests. It is a pleasure to encounter anthropologys classic concepts and methods retooled and newly relevant for understanding our changing world." --Dean MacCannell, Environmental Design & Landscape Architecture, University of California, Davis"This collection provides new insights into how tourist space is contested and controlled, how sexualised bodies are displayed in the everyday, how the tourists national identity is constructed in tourist settings, and how anthropological interventions disrupt the purely academic. An altogether marvelous volume and an important addition to tourism studies." --Edward M. Bruner, author of Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel
About the Author
Julie Scott is Senior Research Fellow in Culture, Tourism and Development in the London Metropolitan Business School at London Metropolitan University. Tom Selwyn is Professional Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Tom Selwyn and Julie Scott * 1. Anthropology, Tourism, and Policy, Simone Abrams * 2. The Sex of Tourism, Susan Frohlick * 3. Space, Body, Nation, and Mass Tourism, Hazel Andrews * 3. Second Homes and Nostalgic Nationalism, Julia Harrison * 4. Classic Hospitality: The Benedictine Case, Kevin O'Gorman * 5. Tropical Gardens and Formations of Modernity, David Picard * 6. Enchanted Sites; Pragmatic Interests, Annika Rabo * 7. Neolithic Monuments and Paganism, Kathryn Rountree * 8. Colonial Consumers and Sites of Urban Poverty, Atreyee Sen * 9. The Political Economy of Cultural Revival, Vassiliki Yiakoumaki * Afterword, Jeremy Boissevain and Nelson Graburn