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Informationen zum Autor By Karen Stocker Klappentext This book examines the consequences-positive, negative, and otherwise-of tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to all parties. To examine both pitfalls and positive outcomes of tourism, it compares modes of tourism in destinations that are locally owned and foreign owned, ecotourism destinations, beach tourism, adventure tourism sites, and agrotourism projects. Furthermore, the author draws from two decades of research in two distinct communities to trace the ways in which the development of tourism in one community provided the springboard for changing gender roles and new opportunities for women, and, in the other, how the promise of tourism has spurred a cultural revitalization and positive change in Indigenous identity. Interviews with three generations of women in one tourist destination show generational changes in perspectives on tourism, and interviews covering the same time span show how in an Indigenous reservation poised to enter the heritage tourism industry, tourism offers a positive alternative to exploitative forms of labor and the stigma once associated with Indigeneity in that region. Interviews with locals in all four sites reveal the ways in which tourism carried out conscientiously would benefit them. These, juxtaposed with interviews of tourists regarding what they seek through tourism, offer a means of designing a mutually beneficial form of tourism. In sum, this book puts into conversation the varied views of those positioned differently within the realm of tourism in order to inform tourists and foreign land owners as to how they might glean the advantages that such an experience may bring to the traveler, while also playing up the benefits of these endeavors to local communities, and minimizing the potential damage these practices may cause. Zusammenfassung Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica: Pitfalls and Possibilities examines the consequences—positive, negative, and otherwise—of tourism in four different sites in Costa Rica. Inhaltsverzeichnis Revised Table of Contents: Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Methodological ConsiderationsAn Anthropologist, a Quaker, and Porn Star Walk Into a Bar: Participant ObservationInterviewsAn Invitation to Insight: Methodological Insights and Considerations of ObjectivityMetiche Anthropology, "Characters," and Contributions. Engaged AnthropologyEthical Considerations and ConsentA Globalized Context for Localized ResearchChapter 3: Community Portraits: Two Beach TownsPlaya del Carmen: A "Locally-Owned" Beach TownWho Counts as a Local: Costa Rican-Foreigner Interaction and PerceptionsOn Locals and Outsiders: Varied LabelsExpat ExperiencesSegregated SpacesPersistence of Local CultureTourism-Related Changes: Cost of Living, Corruption, and WaterPlaya Extranjera: A Foreign-Owned Beach TownLocals: All or NothingChanging Populations and Foreign Locals' ExperiencesDrugs, Prostitution, and Development"Feels Like Home": Catering to ForeignersOverdevelopment, Water, and Tico Resistance Chapter 4: Nambué, The Chorotega Reservation: Portrait of a Community on the Cusp of TourismIndigeneity in Flux: The Reservation's HistoryChanging Indigenous Identities: From Shame to PrideTourism as a Motivator for Revitalization of Tradition and Chorotega Customs MaintainedWitchcraft and Oral TraditionGlobalization and More Recent ConcernsDivision and Unity: Community Life in the ReservationCommunity ChangesLand Rights, Water, and Community Concerns Chapter 5: Montañosa, The Rainforest Community"Facets of a Diamond": Official Histories of MontañosaWho Counts as a Local: Complex CategoriesQuaker Comments on Local Belon...
