Thinking through tourism / edited by Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn.

Other author Scott, Julie (Julie Elsie)
Other author Selwyn, Tom.
Other author Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth. Conference (2007 : London Metropolitan University)
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2010.
Descriptionxxiv, 261 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Tourism.
Tourism--Mediterranean Region.
Tourism--Social aspects.

SeriesASA monographs ; 46
A.S.A. monographs 46. ^A5839
Contents Foreword / Margaret E. Kenna -- Introduction : thinking through tourism : framing the volume / Julie Scott, Tom Selwyn -- Contours of a nation : being British in Mallorca / Hazel Andrews -- The sex of tourism? : bodies under suspicion in paradise / Susan Frohlick -- Belonging at the cottage / Julia Harrison -- Tourists, developers and civil society : on the commodification of Malta's landscapes / Jeremy Boissevain -- Enchanted sites, prosaic interests : traders of the bazaar in Aleppo / Annika Rabo -- Tropical island gardens and formations of modernity / David Picard -- Of Jews, Christians and travellers in Crete : recovered 'roots', unwanted 'heritage' / Vassiliki Yiakoumaki -- Tourist attractions, cultural icons, sites of sacred encounter : engagements with Malta's Neolithic temples / Kathryn Rountree -- 'Hotel Royal' and other spaces of hospitality : tourists and migrants in the Mediterranean / Ramona Lenz -- Anthropology, tourism and intervention? / Simone Abram -- Postlude / Nelson Abram.
General noteContributions to the A.S.A.'s annual conference held April 10-13, 2007, at London Metropolitan University. Cf. acknowledgments and A.S.A.'s website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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