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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Huberman, Jenny Huberman
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780813554075
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5407-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Series in Childhood Studies (H; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education