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**Winner of the 2020 Edward Bruner Prize from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**
"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize Committee
What does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism changed from the 1970s to today? What theories, themes, and concepts drive contemporary research? Thirteen leading anthropologists of tourism address these questions and provide a critical introduction to the state of the art. Focusing on the experience-near, interpretive-humanistic approach to tourism studies widely associated with anthropologist Edward Bruner, the contributors draw on their fieldwork to illustrate and build upon key concepts in tourism ethnography, from experience, encounter, and emergent culture to authenticity, narrative, contested sites, the borderzone, embodiment, identity, and mobility. With its comprehensive introductory chapter, keyword-based organization, and engaging style, The Ethnography of Tourism will appeal to anthropology and tourism studies students, as well as to scholars in both fields and beyond.
For more information, check out A Conversation with the Editors of the Ethnography of Tourism: Edward M. Bruner and Beyond and In Memoriam: Ed Bruner.
Contents
PART I: ORIENTATION
Introduction. The Ethnography of Tourism: Encounter, Experience, Emergent Culture.
Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, and Kathleen M. Adams
PART II: POINTS OF DEPARTURE
1. {Formation} Always in Process: Edward Bruner, American Anthropology, and the Study of Tourism.
Nelson Graburn and Naomi M. Leite
2. {Genealogies} On the Emergence of Identity and Borderzones as Key Concepts.
Kathleen M. Adams
3. {Influence} "So in Effect I Was Studying Myself": Knowing (Our) Tourist Stories.
Julia Harrison
PART III: EXPLORATIONS: CONCEPTS AND DEBATES
4. {Authenticity} "Whatever We Weave Is Authentic": Coproducing Authenticity in Guatemalan Tourism Textile Markets.
Walter E. Little
5. {The Borderzone} Living in and Reaching beyond the Touristic Borderzone: A View from Cuba.
Valerio Simoni
6. {Constructivism} "I Can Feel Them Now, Even as I Write": Hiking Yosemite Falls with the Emergent Subjects of Tourism.
Sally Ann Ness
PART IV: FURTHER AFIELD: NEW DEPARTURES
7. {Identity, Mobility, Embodiment} "Being a Tourist in My (Own) Home": Negotiating Identity between Tourism and Migration in Indonesia.
Kathleen M. Adams
8. {The Self, Narrative, The Borderzone} Beyond Dialogue: Hospitality and the Transformation of Self in Southwestern Madagascar.
David Picard
9. {Contested Sites, Identity, Narrative} Ideologies at War at Chichén Itzá: An Ethnography of a Tourism Destination.
Quetzil E. Castañeda
PART V: HOMECOMINGS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
10. Taking Tourism Seriously: A Conversation with Edward Bruner
Michael A. Di Giovine
11. Reflections
Edward M. Bruner
Afterword. Beyond Anthropology: Ethnography in Tourism Studies.
Mary Mostafanezhad and Margaret Byrne Swain
