Ambivalent encounters : childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huberman, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
©2012
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Subjects:
Child labor > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Social interaction > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Tourism > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Tourists > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Enfants > Travail > Inde > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Interaction sociale > Inde > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Touristes > Inde > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Anthropology > Cultural.
Child labor
Social interaction
Tourism
Tourists
Tourismus
Kinderarbeit
India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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