Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches

302 Pages·2014·0.27 MB·English

by  Noel B. Salazar

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OURISM MAGINARIES
Anthropological Approaches
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Edited by
Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn
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Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches / edited by Noel B. Salazar
and Nelson H. H. Graburn.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-78238-367-3 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-78533-335-4 (paperback) —
ISBN 978-1-78238-368-0 (ebook)
1. Tourism—Anthropological aspects. I. Salazar, Noel B., 1973–
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To those who dare to dream
“The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.”
Anthony de Mello
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Contents
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries 1
Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn
Part I. Imaginaries of Peoples
1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and
Payment in Tourism to Papua’s “Treehouse People” 31
Rupert Stasch
2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization,
and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism 57
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism 80
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7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales 172
Federica Ferraris
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viii Contents
8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of
the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times 194
Paula Mota Santos
9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries 220
Kenneth Little
10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of
Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands 242
Anke Tonnaer
Afterword. Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism 260
Naomi Leite
Notes on Contributors 279
Index 283
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Illustrations
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Figure 0.1. Hosts “gazing” at guests in an ethnic village in
southwest China (Copyright: N. Salazar). 14
Figure 0.2. Cleaning up Kuta Beach, Bali (Copyright: N. Salazar). 20
Figure 1.1. Korowai lands in Papua (Copyright: R. Stasch). 33
Figure 1.2. Members of a German tour group photographing
the house of Saxip Bumxai (Copyright: R. Stasch). 34
Figure 1.3. A fi lm crew enacting a desire to “be like them,”
after completing their fi lm shoot (Copyright: R. Stasch). 43
Figure 2.1. Emberá men waiting for the arrival of the tourists
(Copyright: D. Theodossopoulos). 59
Figure 2.2. Emberá children learning how to type on the
anthropologist’s computer (Copyright: D. Theodossopoulos). 61
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x Illustrations
Figure 8.1. Portugal dos Pequenitos (Source: Fundação Bissaya
Barreto/Portugal dos Pequenitos; Copyright: L. Salt & P. Santos). 200
Figure 8.2. Original entrance (top) and present-day entrance
(bottom) (Copyright: P. Santos). 203
Figure 8.3. Angola’s original Padrão dos Descobrimentos (left)
and present-day inscription (right) (Copyright: P. Santos). 204
Figure 8.4. Depiction of African male human fi gures (Copyright:
P. Santos). 206
Figure 9.1. Lighthouse beer coaster (Copyright: K. Little). 221
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Acknowledgments
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This edited volume is the result of the fortuitous coming together of tour-
ism scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean who had been working
on similar issues and who were developing remarkably similar conceptual
frameworks. In December 2007, the French sociologist Bertrand Réau met
American-based anthropologist Nelson Graburn at the conference “Tour-
ism and Indigenous People/Minorities in Multi-cultural Societies” in the
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Region, Yunnan, China. Striking up dis-
cussions about their research, they discovered many common interests in
the study of tourism and hoped to meet again. When Graburn took up his
part-time position the following year as senior professor at the International
Institute of Culture, Tourism and Development, at London Metropolitan
University, Réau invited him to speak in Lyon and at the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in October 2008. Réau in-
troduced Graburn to geographer Maria Gravari-Barbas, director of the
Institute of Advanced Studies and Research on Tourism (IREST) at the Uni-
.de versity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and they discussed mutual interests
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Having been in touch with Graburn and various members of the Tourism
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xii Acknowledgments
Studies Working Group at the University of California–Berkeley for many
years, Salazar decided to attend the June 2009 workshop in Paris entitled
“The Heritage Industry and the Tourist Imagination,” co-organized by the
Berkeley group and the Sorbonne équipe. It was here and at the ensuing in-
ternational conference on “Tourist Imaginaries/Imaginaires Touristiques”
in 2011 in Berkeley that the idea for this volume was fl eshed out.
The editors of this book would like to express their gratitude to all the
contributors, and particularly to Naomi Leite, author of the afterword, who
was founder of the Tourism Studies Working Group at Berkeley but who
was brought into this book project long after its inception. We also express
our gratitude to Maria Gravari-Barbas for her hospitality and for her enthu-
siasm in stimulating our project. We are grateful to the two anonymous read-
ers for their critical and eager feedback. Finally, we thank Marion Berghahn
and the staff at Berghahn Books for their advice and patience during the
production of this book.
Noel B. Salazar Nelson H. H. Graburn
Brussels Berkeley
Summer of 2013
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Salazar, Noel B.(cid:9)Graburn, Nelson H. H.. 2014. Tourism Imaginaries. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. Accessed April 19, 2017.
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