Envisioning Eden [electronic resource] : mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond / Noel B. Salazar.

ISBN:

9781845456610

Title:

Author:

Salazar, Noel B.

Personal Author:

Salazar, Noel B.

Publication Information:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Series:

New Directions in Anthropology, vol. 31

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

First published in 2010. First paperback edition published in 2013.

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Foreword: Circulating Culture; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Preparing a Roadmap; Chapter 2. Two Destinations, One Destiny; Chapter 3. 'Seducation'; Chapter 4. Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds; Chapter 5. Guiding Roles and Rules; Chapter 6. Fantasy Meets Reality; Chapter 7. Coming Home; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index

Subject Term:

Culture and tourism -- Case studies.

Tourism -- Tanzania -- Arusha.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

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Summary

As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as personal imaginings of the future.

Author Notes

Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.