Practically invisible : coastal Ecuador, tourism, and the politics of authenticity /

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"The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twenty-first century with a choice: embrace a booming tourist industry eager to experience a preconceived notion of Indigeneity, or risk losing a battle against the encroachi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Kimbra, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Manta Indians > Ecuador > Agua Blanca.
Manta Indians > Ethnic identity.
Culture and tourism > Ecuador > Agua Blanca.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
Culture and tourism.
Manners and customs.
Manta Indians.
Agua Blanca (Ecuador) > Social life and customs.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discourse: Fixity
  • Practice: Fluidity
  • Dispositions: Fear
  • Interpracticality: Displacing Fear.

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