Public Indians, private Cherokees : tourism and tradition on tribal ground /
A major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues. Few do it better than the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, whose homeland is the Qualla Boundary of North Carolina. Through extensive resea...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Contemporary American Indian studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Researching the obvious : tourism and the Eastern Cherokee
- The trail of tourism
- Academic perspectives on tourism and the case of Cherokee, North Carolina
- Eastern Cherokee ingenuity
- Disneyfication on the boundary
- Mass tourism's effects on indigenous communities
- Epilogue : an Eastern Cherokee renaissance.