Staging Tourism Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World

Name: Staging Tourism Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World
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ISBN: 9780226143767

ISBN-10: 0226143767

ISBN-13: 9780226143767

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane C. Desmond

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The author analyses issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues, arguing that the public display of bodies is important in structuring identity categories of race, gender and cultural affiliation.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 361
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Touring the Essential



Staging "The Cultural"


Introduction: Cultural Bodies: Hawaiian Tourism and Performance



Let's Lu'au



Picturing Hawai'i: The "Ideal" Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915



Pictures Come to Life: Rendering "Hawai'i" in Early Mainland Performances



Advertising, Racializing, and Performing Hawai'i on Site: The Emergence of Cultural Tourism in the 1920s



Tourism and the Commodification of Culture, 1930-1940



Surfers and "Beachboys": Euro-American Representations of Native Hawaiian Men and Interracial Romance


Conclusion: Up to the Present: Profiling Visitors



Staging "The Natural"


Introduction: Looking at Animals: The Consumption of Radical Bodily Difference



The Industries of Species Tourism



In/Out-of/In-Fake-Situ: Three Case Studies



Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea World


Conclusion: Bodies and Tourism


Notes


References


Cited Index