Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies /

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

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 in...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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