On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Kenneth Little is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Anthropology, York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing, and performativity.

“Pushes anthropology to new levels, and in doing so argues profoundly for its relevance in an effort to understand the 21st century world as it is (troublingly) unfolding. This work pushes the reader to think in dense and complex ways about the tourism experience and all that it symbolizes.” • Julia Harrison, Trent University“A pioneering work… ranks alongside such classic texts as Claude Levi-Strauss’s Triste Tropiques, Evans-Pritchard’s The Nuer, Paul Rabinow’s Reflections on Fieldwork in Morroco and Jean-Paul Dumont’s The Headman and I.” • Sally Ann Ness, University of California

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Writing Stories of Make-BelizeChapter 1. “For the Time is at Hand”: Beast-Time Somet’ingsChapter 2. Impossible TropicsChapter 3. Richie’s TouristsChapter 4. Nowhere ParadiseChapter 5. Belize EphemeraChapter 6. Belize BluesChapter 7. Parca’s PicksEpilogue: Belize FabulationsGlossaryReferencesIndex