Ambivalent Encounters - Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India

Informationen zum Autor JENNY HUBERMAN is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Klappentext Brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationPART 1: Introductions1. Children, Tourists, and Locals2. A Tourist TownPART 2: Conceptions of Children3. Girls and Boys on the Ghats4. Innocent Children or Little Adults?5. The Minds and Hearts of ChildrenPART 3: Conceptions of Value6. Earning, Spending, Saving7. Something Extra8. Money, Gender, and the (Im)morality of Exchange9. ConclusionNotes ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Huberman, Jenny Huberman
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780813554068
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5406-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Series in Childhood Studies (P; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology