Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies / / ed. by Robert E. Wood, Michel Picard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Kathleen M.,; Kahn, Joel S.,; Leong, Laurence Wai-Teng,; Linnekin, Jocelyn,; Michaud, Jean,; Oakes, Timothy S.,; Picard, Michel,; Wood, Robert E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Picard, Michel,; Wood, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

The expansion of international tourism is changing the relationship between ethnic groups and states around the globe. Yet tourism’s importance for the understanding of ethnicity in the modern world has been generally neglected within the field of ethnic studies. This pioneering volume investigates how international tourism development, state policies of ethnic management, and the active responses of local ethnic groups intersect to reshape ethnic identities and ethnic relations in Asian and Pacific societies. It analyzes the ways in which the very meaning of ethnicity and culture are being contested and reworked in the wake of tourism’s impact. Following an introduction that explores the close but often ambivalent relationship between tourism promotion and state ethnic policies, individual contributors examine tourism’s varied effects in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the island Pacific in rich ethnographic detail.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Tourism and the State: Ethnic Options and Constructions of Otherness -- 2. Ethnic Tourism in Rural Guizhou: Sense of Place and the Commerce of Authenticity -- 3. Commodifying Ethnicity: State and Ethnic Tourism in Singapore -- 4. Culturalizing Malaysia: Globalism, Tourism, Heritage, and the City in Georgetown -- 5. A Portrait of Cultural Resistance: The Confinement of Tourism in a Hmong Village in Thailand -- 6. Touting Touristic “Primadonas”: Tourism, Ethnicity, and National Integration in Sulawesi, Indonesia -- 7. Cultural Tourism, Nation-Building, and Regional Culture: The Making of a Balinese Identity -- 8. Consuming Cultures: Tourism and the Commoditization of Cultural Identity in the Island Pacific -- Contributors -- Index