Making the Modern Primitive : Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands /

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This book provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as "culturally authentic." In such a place, how are ideas about authenticity implicated in creati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Iwi taketake.
Trobriander
Tourismus
Ritual
Kulturerbe
Folklorismus
Bildungstourismus
Rites and ceremonies.
Manners and customs.
Heritage tourism.
Culture > Economic aspects.
Culture and tourism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
TRAVEL > Australia & Oceania.
Rites et ceremonies > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee > Trobriand, Îles.
Ethnotourisme > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee > Trobriand, Îles.
Tourisme culturel > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee > Trobriand, Îles.
Rites and ceremonies > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Culture > Economic aspects > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Culture and tourism > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Heritage tourism > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Trobriand-Inseln
Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Trobriand, Îles (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnographic context : the place and the people
  • Modernity and primitivity : definitions and discourses in imagining alterity
  • Fixing the tourist gaze : essentializing the primitive and the creation of desire in textual and visual media
  • Spectacular culture : performance and festivals
  • Producing and consuming experience : commoditizing "real life"
  • Producing and consuming things : material culture as meaningful object
  • Tourist photography : prefiguring and postfiguring the touristic experience
  • Cashing in on culture : the meaning of money in tourist-Trobriand transactions.

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