From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions : Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama /

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"A new reading of Panama's nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guerrón-Montero, Carla María, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transnationalism.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
National characteristics, Panamanian.
Foreign workers, Antillean.
Black people > Social conditions.
Black people > Race identity.
Transnationalisme.
Panameens.
Travailleurs etrangers antillais > Panamá.
Antillais > Panamá > Conditions sociales.
Antillais > Identite ethnique > Panamá.
Tourism > Social aspects > Panama > Bocas del Toro (Province)
Tourism > Social aspects > Panama.
Foreign workers, Antillean > Panama.
Antilleans > Panama > Social conditions.
Black people > Panama > Social conditions.
Antilleans > Race identity > Panama.
Black people > Race identity > Panama.
Panama > Bocas del Toro (Province)
Panama.
Bocas del Toro (Panamá : Province) > Conditions sociales.
Bocas del Toro (Panama : Province) > Social conditions.
Panama > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Panameñismo and Panameñidad : converging ideologies in the construction of Panamanian national identity
  • Panama's temporary migrants : the Afro-Antillean presence in the national narrative
  • "Panama is more than a canal" : the twenty-first century and the Panamanian tourism industry
  • Touring the archipelago of Bocas del Toro
  • Afro-Antilleanness represented : museums, theme parks, and the manufacturing of history
  • The permanent attractions: music and cuisine as malleable "ethnic commodities"
  • Conclusions: Afro-Antillean identity construction, international tourism, and the new symbols of Panameñidad.

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