Donald V. L. (Hrsg.) Macleod

Tourism, Power and Culture

Anthropological Insights

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Tourism as an experience and an industry is infused by culture in its various dimensions, and influenced throughout by relationships of power; this is particularly apparent at the destination site. Anthropological investigations give rich insights into power and culture through ethnographic fieldwork, comparative analysis and theoretical explanation. Within this timely and groundbreaking book case studies come from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia and South East Asia. It is divided into two sections dealing with tourism and the power struggle for resources; and tourism and culture: presentation, promotion and the manipu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Carrier, James G. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84541-186-2
EAN: 9781845411862
Produktnummer: 20524791
Verlag: Channel View Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'365 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Donald Macleod trained in anthropology at Oxford University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow where he has run two research centres. He has researched in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Scotland, and published widely on tourism impacts, cultural change, globalisation, identity, sustainable tourism development and heritage. His books include Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change (2004), Niche Tourism In Question (2003 - editor), Tourists and Tourism (1997 - co-editor).James G. Carrier began studying tourism, environmental conservation and economy in Jamaica and the Caribbean in the middle of the 1990s. He has supervised or co-supervised projects dealing with these topics in Montego Bay, Negril and Port Antonio, all in Jamaica. He is currently Senior Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana.