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The Tourism Encounter : Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories.

This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Babb, Florence E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction:The Tourism Encounter; Part I. Postrevolutionary Tourism in Cuba and Nicaragua; 1. Che, Chevys, and Hemingway's Daiquiris: Cuban Tourism in Transition; 2. Recycled Sandalistas: From Revolution to Resorts in the New Nicaragua; Part II. Cultural Tourism in Postconflict Andean Peruand Chiapas, Mexico; 3. Forgetting the Past: Andean Cultural Tourism After the Violen; 4 .Remembering the Revolution: Indigenous Culture and Zapatista Tourism; Part III. Tourism and Its Discontents: Gender, Race, and Power in Transitional Societies.
  • 5. Sex and Sentiment in Cuban and Nicaraguan Tourism6. Race, Gender, and Cultural Tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico; Conclusion: Post tourism and Nationhood; Notes; References; Index.