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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
©2012 |
Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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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.