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Global tourism : cultural heritage and economic encounters / edited by Sarah Lyon and E. Christian Wells.

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TextPublication details: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2012Description: viii, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780759120914 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780759120938 (electronic)Subject(s): Heritage tourism | Culture and globalization | Economic anthropologyDDC classification: 910

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	910 LYO/G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P42255

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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

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