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Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India /

This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such pow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Huberman, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Children, tourists, and locals
  • A tourist town
  • Conceptions of children
  • Girls and boys on the ghats
  • Innocent children or little adults?
  • The minds and hearts of children
  • Conceptions of value
  • Earning, spending, saving
  • Something extra
  • Money, gender, and the (im)morality of exchange
  • Conclusion.