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...Michael Ennis Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters . Edited by Berger Dina and Wood Andrew Grant . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . x + 408 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, index . $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper...

...Larry Nesper After the Second World War, increasing numbers of tourists traveled to the Northwoods of Wisconsin to recreate. Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Indians encouraged this process by availing themselves as fishing guides and by building in 1951 the Indian Bowl, within which they staged Indian...

... become increasingly popular. This essay examines the progressive commodification of culture now occurring in these representations and analyzes their popularity among foreign and South African tourists. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Adams, Kathleen M. 1995 Making-up the Toraja...

...Alicia Re Cruz The article analyzes the phenomenon of tourism within the current globalizing and postmodern contexts. It is based on the cultural relationship between Chan Kom, a Maya community in the Yucatán Peninsula, and Cancún, the international tourist emporium. The tourist culture...

...Quetzil E. Castañeda This essay explores the history of the political structure of town and municipal authority in a specific case study of a Yucatec Maya community. The town is Pisté, a community that has become a significant tourist center that provides services for the nearby archaeological...

... of the Kwakwaka'wakw community and with a larger public, sometimes referred to as“outsiders” or tourists. I will attempt to account for some of these differences by drawing on a long-term field-work experience. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Alert Bay Infocentre n.d. Discover Yourself in Our World...

...John J. Bodinger de Uriarte This article examines representational strategies used by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to define and display cultural authenticity—in tribal, regional, and pan-Indian terms—in public, tourist spaces. It focuses upon the articulation of cultural identity...

... “They”See “Us”: Native American Images of Tourists. Annals of Tourism Research 16 : 89 -105. Handler, Richard, and Eric Gable 1997 The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past in Colonial Williamsburg . Durham, ncz: Duke University Press. Harkin, Michael 1995 Modernist Anthropology...

... and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Erb, Maribeth 1998 Tourism Space in Manggarai, West Flores, Indonesia: The House as a Contested Place. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 19 (2): 177 -92. Graburn, Nelson H. H., ed. 1976 Ethnic and Tourist...

... of tourist attractions that seek to rewrite the history of the nation while at the same time essentializing the internal cultural differences of the groups that now make up the nation of South Africa. Schutte deals explicitly...

... invested in tourist housing, and other privately owned infrastructure followed. Anthropologist Sarah R. Taylor charts the impact and implications of the burgeoning tourist industry on Ek’ Balam and its people from 2004 to 2012. At the crux of change is what Taylor refers to as the “ecosystem...

... of Guatemala’s past and impediment to progress, tourist attractions, and an underutilized economic resource. They were also the major attraction at the fair and were the most photographed.1 Nearly twenty years ago Cynthia Enloe argued that photographic objects as seemingly insignificant...

...: Broadview. Pascua, Maria Parker 1991 Ozette: A Makah Village in 1491 . National Geographic, October, 38 -53. Phillips, Ruth B. 1991 Glimpses of Eden: Iconographic Themes in Huron Pictorial Tourist Art. European Review of Native American Studies 5 (2): 19 -28. Pratt, Mary Louise 1992...

.... Imitation played a key, but seldom analyzed, role in the births of tourism, what has since become known as “Haitian popular art” or simply “Haitian art,” and urban temple Vodou. The interplay among European and North American tourists, ethnographers, local cultural entrepreneurs, and artists in Port...

... to these values when the NGO launches a series of efforts to “capacitate” some community members to address the desires attributed to tourists. In contrast to a reckoning of value that focused on replacement and social replenishment, NGO capacitation produced “irreplaceable” persons, individuals with specialized...

...: Cusco's Mystical Tourist Industry and the Politics of Incanismo. Ethnos 72 ( 4 ): 433 –60. 2008 Inca of the Blood, Inca of the Soul: Embodiment, Emotion, and Racialization in the Peruvian Mystical Tourist Industry. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76 ( 2 ): 251 –79. Hobsbawm...

... century giving rise to our current notions of the tourist as opposed to the traveler. As a result, the touristic cultural productions of earlier times, in the form of photographs, travelogues, guidebooks, and souvenirs, have...

... governments had sought to assimilate Maya. Yet beginning in the 1930s this goal clashed with the state’s attempt to attract international tourists by marketing Maya. Even today images of colorful Mayas and statues of Tekún Umán form a per- plexing backdrop in a nation that devolved into genocide during...

.... In an entrepreneur who ran an alligator farm sized up the tourist potential of the Seminole who camped seasonally at a nearby trading post. Over the next few years other camps appeared on Miami’s outskirts, offer- ing such attractions as genuine Seminole weddings. It is easy to dismiss such ventures as crass...

.... Benedict, Burton 1983 The Anthropology of World's Fairs. In The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915 . Burton Benedict, ed. Pp. 1 -65. Berkeley, ca: Lowie Museum of Anthropology. Cohen, Erik 1979 A Phenomenology of Tourist Experiences...