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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 imaginings of the future.
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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