By Valene L. Smith
ISBN-10: 0812212800
ISBN-13: 9780812212808
Tourism—one of the world's greatest industries—has lengthy been preferred for its fiscal advantages, yet during this quantity tourism gets a special systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural alternate. smooth advancements in know-how and undefined, including masterful advertisements, have created quickly leisured individuals with the will and the skill to trip. they typically in flip impression profound cultural swap within the locations they stopover at, and the members to this paintings all attend to the effect those "guests" have on their "hosts."
In distinction to the dramatic financial adjustments, the social repercussions of tourism are sophisticated and sometimes famous basically by way of the indigenous peoples themselves and by way of the anthropologists who've studied them prior to and after the advent of tourism. The case reports in Hosts and Guests research the 5 forms of tourism—historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational—and their effect on assorted societies over a wide geographical range
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G R A B U R N The human organism . . is ... ]. D. Berlyne (1962, p. 166) The anthropology of tourism, though novel in itself, rests upon sound anthropological foundations and has predecessors in previous research on rituals and ceremonials, human play, and cross-cultural aesthetics. Modern This paper is derived from a series of revisions made of the remarks that I delivered as a discussant to the Symposium on Tourism, organized by Valene Smith at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Mexico City, November 1974.
407) says, "Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type/' The tendency to generalize or 45 Tourism as a Form of Imperialism categorize, which also characterizes strangers' conceptions of their hosts, suggests the type of relationship common in the modern world. Not only do strangers and their hosts treat each other as types but also as objects. Where disparities of power are great, as in the early stages of colonialism, this can lead to prejudice and discrimination by the colonizers and a variety of familiar responses among the colonized (Fanon 1968).
Conversely, the sacred charisma rubs off; those left at home feel partly uplifted, though perhaps jealous, when they receive such cards and may even display them near their work desks or on bulletin boards. The next best thing to traveling is to know someone who did. Yet if they did go along, had already been there, or were about to visit the same area, there would be heightened excitement in sharing, which parallels Huizinga's (1950, p. 12) observations about play: The [co-traveling] community tends to become permanent even after it is over .
Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith
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