Colleen Ballerino Cohen

Take Me to My Paradise

Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) markets itself to international visitors as a paradise. But just whose paradise is it? Take Me to My Paradise looks at the many players in the BVI tourism culture, including immigrants working in a tourism economy, nationalists struggling to maintain some control, and the anthropologist trying to make sense of it all. The result is a richly detailed and accessible ethnography on the impact of tourism on a country that came into being as a tourist destination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813548104
• ISBN-10: 0813548101
• Artikelnr.: 30688064

Autorenporträt

Cohen, Colleen B

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations 
Acknowledgments
A Note on Notes and Names
Introduction: Take Me to My Paradise
1. Tourism's Paradise: Historical Background
2. Making Paradise as a Tourist Desti-Nation
3. "Nature's Little Secrets": Marketing Paradise and Making Nation
4. Cultural Negotiations: Race, Identity, and Citizenship
5. Like Looking at Ourselves in a Mirror: Collaborative Ethnography in
Paradise
6. Stanley's Swing and Other Intimate Encounters
7. Of Festivals, Calypso Kings, and Beauty Queens
8. Performing Paradise and Making Culture
Conclusion: Technically, It's a County
References
Index