Staging Tourism - Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Touring the EssentialPART I: Staging "The Cultural"INTRODUCTION: Cultural Bodies: Hawaiian Tourism and PerformanceONE: Let's Lu'auTWO: Picturing Hawai'i: The "Ideal" Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915THREE: Pictures Come to Life: Rendering "Hawai'i" in Early Mainland PerformancesFOUR: Advertising, Racializing, and Performing Hawai'i on Site: The Emergence of Cultural Tourism in the 1920sFIVE: Tourism and the Commodification of Culture, 1930-1940SIX: Surfers and "Beachboys": Euro-American Representations of Native Hawaiian Men and Interracial RomanceCONCLUSION: Up to the Present: Profiling VisitorsPART II: Staging "The Natural"INTRODUCTION: Looking at Animals: The Consumption of Radical Bodily DifferenceSEVEN: The Industries of Species TourismEIGHT: In/Out-of/In-Fake-Situ: Three Case StudiesNINE: Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea WorldCONCLUSION: Bodies and TourismNotesReferences CitedIndex

Summary

Provides an account of US tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to 1999. The book juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism", suggesting that the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the 19th century.

Product details

• Authors: DESMOND, Jane Desmond, Jane C. Desmond, Jane Desmond
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2001
• EAN: 9780226143767
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14376-7
• No. of pages: 361
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 595 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries