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It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, "tourism imaginaries" have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries
Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn PART I: IMAGINARIES OF PEOPLES Chapter 1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to New Guinea's "Treehouse People"
Rupert Stasch Chapter 2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism
Alexis Celeste Bunten Chapter 4. Myth Management in Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond
Margaret Byrne Swain Chapter 5. Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community
João Afonso Baptista PART II: IMAGINARIES OF PLACES Chapter 6. The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina
Michael A. Di Giovine Chapter 7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales
Federica Ferraris Chapter 8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times
Paula Mota Santos Chapter 9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries
Kenneth Little Chapter 10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands
Anke Tonnaer Afterword: Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism
Naomi Leite Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is co-editor of Keywords of Mobility (2016) and Regimes of Mobility (2014), and author of Envisioning Eden (2010) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the anthropology of travel. He is vice-president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and member of the Young Academy of Belgium.
Nelson H. H. Graburn (1936-2025) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was editor of Ethnic and Tourist Arts (1976), Anthropology of Tourism (1983), Tourism Social Sciences (1991), Anthropology in the Age of Tourism (2009), and Tourism and Globalization (2010) as well as many other monographs and papers. He was a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, and the Tourism Studies Working Group (www.tourismstudies.org).
Summary
Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.
