Culture on Tour Ethnographies of Travel

Name: Culture on Tour Ethnographies of Travel
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ISBN: 9780226077635

ISBN-10: 0226077632

ISBN-13: 9780226077635

Edition: 2004

Authors: Edward M. Bruner

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Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not traditional, but instead had been set up specifically for tourists. His efforts to induce reflexivity led to conflict with the tour company, which wanted the displays to be viewed as replicas of culture and to remain unexamined. Although Bruner was eventually fired, the experience became part of a sustained exploration of tourist performances,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations Introduction: Travel Stories Told and Retold



Storytelling Rights



Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa



The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism



Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora: Tourism in Ghana



Competing Stories



Lincoln's New Salem as a Contested Site



Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism



Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada



Tales from the Field



The Balinese Borderzone



Taman Mini: Self-Constructions in an Ethnic Theme Park in Indonesia



Reincorporations: Return to Sumatra, 1957, 1997


Acknowledgments and Credits


Notes


References


Index