Global tourism : cultural heritage and economic encounters / edited by Sarah Lyon and E. Christian Wells.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2012Description: viii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780759120914 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780759120938 (electronic)Subject(s): Heritage tourism | Culture and globalization | Economic anthropologyDDC classification: 910Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 910 LYO/G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P42255 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch01 Ethnographies of Global Tourism 1
PartI CULTURAL HERITAGE 19
Ch02 Shifting Values and Meanings of Heritage 21
Ch03 Mayanizing Tourism on Roatán Island Honduras 43
Ch04 Shaping Heritage to Serve Development 61
PartII ECONOMIC ENCOUNTERS IN TOURISTIC SPHERES 81
Ch05 Of Sales Pitches and Speech Genres 83
Ch06 Tourism as Transaction 105
Ch07 Spiritual Spaces Marginal Places 121
Ch08 Becoming Tongan Again 143
Ch09 Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment 165
PartIII REDEFINING TOURISMS IMPACT 187
Ch10 Sacrificing Cultural Capital for Sustainability 189
Ch11 Reproductive Tourism 209
Ch12 The Uses of Ecotourism 227
Ch13 Who Owns Ecotourism? 251
Ch14 The Effects of Tourism and Western Consumption on the Gendered Production and Distribution of Bogolan 273
About the Editors and Contributors 305
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