Making the Modern Primitive : : Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands / / Michelle MacCarthy.
Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as "culturally authentic." In such a place, how are ideas about authenticity im...
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MacCarthy, Michelle, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making the Modern Primitive : Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands / Michelle MacCarthy. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (284 p.) : 24 b&w images, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One. Ethnographic Context -- Chapter Two. Modernity and Primitivity -- Chapter Three. Fixing the Tourist Gaze -- Chapter Four. Spectacular Culture -- Chapter Five. Producing and Consuming Experience -- Chapter Six. Producing and Consuming Things -- Chapter Seven. Tourist Photography -- Chapter Eight. Cashing In on Culture -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as "culturally authentic." In such a place, how are ideas about authenticity implicated in creating and representing the self and cultural Others in the context of cultural tourism? Michelle MacCarthy addresses this question by examining four arenas of interaction between Trobriand Islanders and tourists: formal performances, informal village visits, souvenir shopping, and tourist photography. Drawing on both symbolic/interpretive approaches and concepts drawn from economic anthropology, she examines the relationship of tourism to the commoditization of culture, the ways in which local residents actively represent and enact "Trobriandness," and the ways tourists interpret and narrate their experience. MacCarthy offers an anthropological critique of concepts of authenticity, tradition, and cultural commodification, based on long-term fieldwork among Trobriand Islanders and tourists.These notions, which have particular meanings as analytical concepts in anthropology, are also used and strategically deployed in the discourses of both Trobriand Islanders and tourists. Ideas about primitivity and cultural essentialism, while critiqued by anthropologists, are nonetheless used by both parties in tourism interactions to conceptualize and contextualize difference. MacCarthy demonstrate how such tropes are employed in ways that fit with prevailing metanarratives which each side holds about the other, and how these tropes are reproduced both in individual narratives of both tourists' and Trobrianders' experiences and in their interpretations (often misconstrued) of the lives of cultural Others with whom they interact. She examines the social dimensions of cross-cultural exchange in these four arenas (performance, village life, souvenirs, photography) to argue that cultural commodities are conceived of as singularities, a special category whose commodity status is downplayed in order to generate an increased sense of authenticity and to perpetuate the myth of a "primitive" economy and way of life more generally. In touristic encounters, experience itself is a sort of commodity, but relationships (real or imagined) are central to investing these experiences with meaning and value. This analysis contributes new understandings of the role and significance of authenticity in the anthropology of tourism, and its relationship to exchange; that is, how meaning and value are ascribed to the cultural products produced and consumed in the cultural tourism encounter with reference to ideas about what is and isn't authentic. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Culture and tourism Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Culture Economic aspects Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Heritage tourism Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Rites and ceremonies Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016 9783110701005 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016 9783110564136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110663235 print 9780824855604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824855635 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824855635 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780824855635.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One. Ethnographic Context -- Chapter Two. Modernity and Primitivity -- Chapter Three. Fixing the Tourist Gaze -- Chapter Four. Spectacular Culture -- Chapter Five. Producing and Consuming Experience -- Chapter Six. Producing and Consuming Things -- Chapter Seven. Tourist Photography -- Chapter Eight. Cashing In on Culture -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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