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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.) :; 24 b&w images, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • 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