
Hosts and Guests
The Anthropology of Tourism
Valene L. Smith(Editor)
University of Pennsylvania Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. February 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8122-1280-8 (ISBN)
Description
Tourism-one of the world's largest industries-has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in turn effect profound cultural change in the places they visit, and the contributors to this work all attend to the impact these "guests" have on their "hosts."
In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only by the indigenous peoples themselves and by the anthropologists who have studied them before and after the introduction of tourism. The case studies in Hosts and Guests examine the five types of tourism-historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational-and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range
In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only by the indigenous peoples themselves and by the anthropologists who have studied them before and after the introduction of tourism. The case studies in Hosts and Guests examine the five types of tourism-historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational-and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range
Reviews / Votes
"A pioneering collection of 16 scholarly papers in the anthropology of tourism. . . . It has much to interest the casual reader. . . . A mirror of human behavior."-New York Times"Provocative and theoretically stimulating."-AmericanAnthropologist
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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
33 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-1280-8 (9780812212808)
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Person
Valene L. Smith is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico.