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Sabina Owsianowska, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz - Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

Bridging Worlds

Av Sabina Owsianowska, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz

Del i serien Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society

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In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Poland.
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Sabina Owsianowska is assistant professor in the Department of the Theory of Leisure and Tourism at the University of Physical Education in Krakow and lecturer at Jagiellonian University.Magdalena Banaszkiewicz is assistant professor in the Institute of Intercultural Studies at Jagiellonian University and lecturer at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.

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This unique and fascinating collection is a valuable contribution to the Anthropology of Tourism and to cultural anthropological studies more generally with scholarship that developed at a time when the possibilities of cross-border exchanges between countries behind the so-called Iron Curtain and those in the West, either for tourists or academics, were limited. Bringing together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those from Western Europe and the United States the book brings fresh insights into issues relating to, among others, heritage, urban exploration, gender, globalization, handicrafts and food and alcohol related tourism. Drawing on examples from both within and outside the CEE the volume utilizes tourism as a tool to understand cultural and economic processes that not only enrich debates in the study of tourism but also gives voice to scholars from CEE to make contribution to developments in the discipline of anthropology. Using the bridge as a metaphor the book is not only grounded on developing links between CEE and the Anglophone world of scholarship but ends with a request to build upon and further the foundations the volume has laid out for us. At a time when identity politics is on the rise and we seem to be seeing the pulling across of new ‘Iron Curtains’ the invitation to walk across the bridge appears ever more urgent and makes this book essential reading for us all.

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