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Global tourism : cultural heritage and economic encounters / edited by Sarah Lyon and E. Christian Wells. - Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2012. - viii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch01 Ethnographies of Global Tourism 1

PartI CULTURAL HERITAGE 19

Ch02 Shifting Values and Meanings of Heritage 21

Ch03 Mayanizing Tourism on Roatán Island Honduras 43

Ch04 Shaping Heritage to Serve Development 61

PartII ECONOMIC ENCOUNTERS IN TOURISTIC SPHERES 81

Ch05 Of Sales Pitches and Speech Genres 83

Ch06 Tourism as Transaction 105

Ch07 Spiritual Spaces Marginal Places 121

Ch08 Becoming Tongan Again 143

Ch09 Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment 165

PartIII REDEFINING TOURISMS IMPACT 187

Ch10 Sacrificing Cultural Capital for Sustainability 189

Ch11 Reproductive Tourism 209

Ch12 The Uses of Ecotourism 227

Ch13 Who Owns Ecotourism? 251

Ch14 The Effects of Tourism and Western Consumption on the Gendered Production and Distribution of Bogolan 273

About the Editors and Contributors 305


ISBN: 9780759120914 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780759120938 (electronic)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Heritage tourism.
Culture and globalization.
Economic anthropology.

Dewey Class. No.: 910 / LYO/G