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Indigenous Tourism Movements

Indigenous Tourism Movements

Edited by Alexis C. Bunten and Nelson H.H. Graburn

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

20 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps

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9781442622531
Published: February 2018

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9781442622548
Published: February 2018

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Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them apart from their non-Indigenous predecessors and competitors.

Indigenous Tourism Movements explores Indigenous identity using “movement” as a metaphor, drawing on case studies from throughout the world including Botswana, Canada, Chile, Panama, Tanzania, and the United States. Editors Alexis C.Bunten and Nelson Graburn, along with a diverse group of contributors, frame tourism as a critical lens to explore the shifting identity politics of Indigeneity in relation to heritage, global policy, and development. They juxtapose diverse expressions of identity – from the commodification of Indigenous culture to the performance of heritage for tourists – to illuminate the complex local, national, and transnational connections these expressions produce.

Indigenous Tourism Movements is a sophisticated, sensitive, and refreshingly frank examination of Indigeneity in the contemporary world.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Current Themes in Indigenous Tourism, Alexis Celeste Bunten and Nelson H.H. Graburn

PART 1: IDENTITY MOVEMENTS

1. Deriding Demand: A Case Study of Indigenous Imaginaries at an Australian Aboriginal Tourism Cultural Park, Alexis Celeste Bunten

2. The Masaai as paradoxical icons of tourism (im)mobility, Noel Salazar

3. The Alchemy of Tourism: From Stereotype and Marginalizing Discourse to Real in the Space of Tourist Performance, Karen Stocker

PART II: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

1. Indigenous tourism as a transformative process: the case of the Embera in Panama, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

2. San Cultural Tourism: Mobilizing Indigenous Agency in Botswana, Rachel Giraudo

3. The Commodification of Authenticity: Performing and Displaying Dogon Material Identity, Laurence Douny

PART III: KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENTS

1. Streams of Tourists: Navigating the Tourist Tides in Late 19^th Century Southeast Alaska, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

2. Experiments in Inuit Tourism: The Eastern Canadian Arctic, Nelson H.H. Graburn

3. Beyond Neoliberalism and Nature: Territoriality, Relational Ontologies and Hybridity in a Tourism Initiative in Alto Bio Bio, Chile, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha

Epilogue

Alexis C. Bunten manages the Indigeneity Program for the Bioneers Collective Heritage Institute, based in San Francisco, California.

Nelson Graburn is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.

"…This book uncovers some of the mounting tensions and pervasive discontinuities in global Indigenous tourism movements. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Indigenous tourism, colonial histories of cultural repression, the production of Indigeneity, nationalism, and the inequitable of political power structures that continue to marginalize and disadvantage Indigenous communities internationally."
~Courtney Mason, Thompson Rivers University, Transmotion, vol 5 no 1