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Please circulate this new book announcement. If anybody is interested in
purchasing the book, contact the author because he can offer a really
great limited-time discount offer
<https://sites.google.com/site/nbsalazar/EEDiscount.pdf>.
*Envisioning Eden: **Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond*
Noel B. Salazar
Berghahn Books, November 2010
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SalazarEnvisioning
(Vol. 31, /New Directions in Anthropology/)
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 fantasies of the
future. The author reveals how local guides in Yogyakarta and Arusha
insure the continued reproduction and localization of tourist fantasies,
but they also use the privileged contact with foreigners to foment their
own imaginations of “paradise on earth.” The book focuses on the human
mechanics of globalization, cosmopolitan mobility, and the role of the
imaginary in giving people’s lives meaning, demonstrating essential ways
in which ethnographies of tourism and travel contribute to ongoing
theoretical and methodological debates about the local–global nexus.
*/Table of Contents/*
**Foreword: Circulating Culture (by /Prof. Em./ /Edward M. Bruner/)
Preface
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
/"Noel Salazar's contribution to understanding globalization and
localization processes is informed and persuasive, using tourism-the
phenomenon which has turned our world into a global village-to
illuminate, par excellence, the resulting intersects, overlaps, and
especially clashes now dominating our shared history."/
*Jafar Jafari*, Founding Editor, */Annals of Tourism Research/***
/"I am very impressed with this book. It is the best ethnography of tour
guide training and performance to date. Indeed its probing analyses and
its many comments make a great contribution to our understanding of
contemporary international and intercultural tourism. It is very well
written and superbly referenced."/
*Nelson Graburn*, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
/"This is a lively and enjoyable book based on rigorous research which
highlights the power and persuasiveness of international tourism while,
at the same time, critically, it reminds us that tourism is ultimately
about people and their stories."/
*Mike Robinson*, Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
/"This book is the reference for tourism imaginaries academia was
waiting for. Based on excellent ethnographic work that disentangles
'glocal' issues, it demonstrates that globalization divides the planet
as much as bringing it together. Tourism and the encounters it generates
are pertinently analyzed as central pieces of the new anthropology of
glocalization."/
*Maria Gravari-Barbas*, Director IREST, UNESCO Chair:
Culture-Tourism-Development
//
/"...a clear, well-organized interesting piece of original research on
two exceptionally interesting and productively comparable destinations.
It is well placed within the tourism studies literature."/
*Sally Ann Ness*, Professor, University of California, Riverside
*Noel B. Salazar*received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania
and is a Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the
University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include
anthropologies of (im)mobility and travel, the local–global nexus,
discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and
cosmopolitanism.
Noel B. Salazar
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615
BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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