Global tourism cultural heritage and economic encounters - Lyon, Sarah; Wells, E. Christian (Lanham, MD AltaMira Press, 2012)
Ethnographies of global tourism : cultural heritage, economic encounters, and the redefinition of impact Sarah Lyon and E. Christian Wells -- Part I. Cultural heritage. Shifting values and meanings of heritage : from cultural appropriation to tourism interpretation and back Noel B. Salazar ; Mayanizing tourism on Roatán Island, Honduras : archaeological perspectives on heritage, development, and indignity Alejandro J. Figueroa, Whitney A. Goodwin, and E. Christian Wells ; Shaping heritage to serve development : bureaucratic conflict and local agency at two Chinese heritage sites Robert Shepherd -- Part II. Economic encounters in touristic spheres. Of sales pitches and speech genres : peddling personality on the riverfront of Banaras Jenny Huberman ; Tourism as transaction : commerce and heritage on the Inca Trail Keely Maxwell ; Spiritual spaces, marginal places : the commodification of a Nalú sacred grove / Brandon D. Lundy ; Becoming Tongan again : generalized reciprocity meets tourism in Tonga Patricia L. Delaney and Paul A. Rivera ; Women, entrepreneurship, and empowerment : Black-owned township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa Katrina T. Greene -- Part III. Redefining tourism's "impact." Sacrificing cultural capital for sustainability : identity, class, and the Swedish stay cation Cindy Isenhour ; Reproductive tourism : health care crisis reifies global stratified reproduction Amy Speier ; The uses of ecotourism : articulating conservation and development agendas in Belize Laurie Kroshus Medina ; Who owns ecotourism? The Ecotourismo Sericase Diana Luque ? [et al.] ; The effects of tourism and western consumption on the gendered production and distribution of Bogolan : development initiatives and Malian women as agents for change Sarah Lockridge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Heritage tourism; Culture and globalization; Economic anthropology