Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches / edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn ; contributors Joao Afonso Baptista [and twelve others].

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It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, "tourism imaginaries" have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.

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CHOICE Review

This compilation of ten essays dedicated to an emerging subfield concerning visitors' imaginations about the destinations to which they travel is the first of its kind to explore the topic of imagination from an anthropological approach. Involving ethnographic research throughout the South Pacific, Asia, Central America, and Europe, the volume is global in its approach, though the 13 authors represent institutions based in either North America or Europe. At the heart of this collection is the focus on imagining the life of the other or the "toured" and its role in selling destinations to visitors. For libraries that have an extensive collection or are looking to build their collections in tourism studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Kyle M. Woosnam, Texas A&M University