Thinking Through Tourism

The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of 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 hospitality, sex and tourism, enchantment, colonial and neo-colonial consumption, the relation between tourism and gender and ethnic boundaries, as well as questions of global, economic and cultural systems, modernism and nationalism. The book also covers practical and policy issues relating to urban, rural and coastal planning and development.
Thinking through Tourism assesses the enormous potential contribution that analysis of tourism can offer to mainstream 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.

Auteur

Julie Scott is Senior Research Fellow in Culture, Tourism and Development at London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University. Tom Selwyn is Professorial Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Contenu

Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Margaret E. Kenna,
Swansea University

1. Introduction: Thinking Through Tourism -
   Framing the
   Volume
   Julie Scott, London Metropolitan University and Tom
   Selwyn,
   School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
2. Contours of a Nation: Being British in Mallorca
   Hazel Andrews,
   Liverpool John Moores University
3. The Sex of Tourism? Bodies
   Under Suspicion in Paradise
   Susan Frohlick, University of
   Manitoba ,Winnipeg, Canada
4. Belonging at the Cottage

Julia Harrison, Trent University, Ontario, Canada

5. Tourists, Developers and Civil Society: On the
   Commodification of Malta's Landscapes
   Jeremy Boissevain,
   University of Amsterdam
6. Enchanted Sites - Prosaic Interests.
   Traders of the
   Bazaar in Aleppo
   Annika Rabo, Stockholm University
7. Tropical Island Gardens and Formations of Modernity
   David
   Picard, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal
8. Of Jews,
   Christians, and Travellers in Crete:
   Recovered 'Roots', Unwanted 'Heritage'
   Vassiliki Yiakoumaki,
   University of Thessaly (Volos), Greece
9. Tourist Attractions,
   Cultural Icons, Sites of Sacred
   Encounter: Engagements with Malta's Neolithic Temples
   Kathryn
   Rountree, Massey University
10. 'Hotel Royal' and other Spaces
    of Hospitality:
    Tourists and Migrants in the Mediterranean
    Ramona Lenz,
    University of Frankfurt/Main
11. Anthropology, Tourism and
    Intervention?
    Simone Abram, Leeds Metropolitan
    University
    Postlude
    Nelson Graburn, Hearst Museum,
    Berkeley