Thinking Through Tourism

by Julie Scott (Editor), Tom Selwyn (Editor)

Overview

Summarising current debates and offering new approaches for this expanding field of study, Thinking Through Tourism will appeal to students across a range of disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847887870
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Series:	Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs , #46
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Foreword Margaret E. Kenna xiii

1 Introduction: Thinking Through Tourism - Framing the Volume Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn 1

2 Contours of a Nation: Being British in Mallorca Hazel Andrews 27

3 The Sex of Tourism? Bodies under Suspicion in Paradise Susan Frohlick 51

4 Belonging at the Cottage Julia Harrison 71

5 Tourists, Developers and Civil Society: On the Commodification of Malta's Landscapes Jeremy Boissevain 93

6 Enchanted Sites, Prosaic Interests: Traders of the Bazaar in Aleppo Annika Rabo 117

7 Tropical Island Gardens and Formations of Modernity David Picard 139

8 Of Jews, Christians and Travellers in Crete: Recovered 'Roots', Unwanted 'Heritage' Vassiliki Yiakoumaki 161

9 Tourist Attractions, Cultural Icons, Sites of Sacred Encounter: Engagements with Malta's Neolithic Temples Kathryn Rountree 183

10 'Hotel Royal' and other Spaces of Hospitality: Tourists and Migrants in the Mediterranean Ramona Lenz 209

11 Anthropology, Tourism and Intervention? Simone Abram 231

Postlude Nelson Graburn 255

Index 259

Editorial Reviews

"This volume proves anthropology's 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 anthropology's 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, 2005

From the Publisher

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.

author of Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Tr Edward M. Bruner

This volume proves anthropology's 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 anthropology's classic concepts and methods retooled and newly relevant for understanding our changing world.

Dean MacCannell