From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions - Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama

About the author

Carla GuerrÓn Montero is professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware. She is author of El Color de la Panela: Estudio sobre la Mujer Negra en los Andes Afro-Ecuatorianos and editor of Careers in Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Academics and Practitioners.

Summary

Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, this book considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building. Carla Guerron Montero analyses the ways in which tourism becomes a vehicle for the development of specific kinds of institutional multiculturalism and nation-building projects.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Guerron Montero, Carla Guerrón Montero, Carla Guerron Montero
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780817320614
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2061-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: 11 black & white figures, 2 maps, 1 table
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social