Tourism, Power and Culture

Donald Macleod trained in anthropology at Oxford University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow where he has run two research centres. He has researched in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Scotland, and published widely on tourism impacts, cultural change, globalisation, identity, sustainable tourism development and heritage. His books include Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change (2004), Niche Tourism In Question (2003 - editor), Tourists and Tourism (1997 - co-editor).James G. Carrier began studying tourism, environmental conservation and economy in Jamaica and the Caribbean in the middle of the 1990s. He has supervised or co-supervised projects dealing with these topics in Montego Bay, Negril and Port Antonio, all in Jamaica. He is currently Senior Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana.

This book is something of a landmark in the tourism literature by strengthening the sometimes tenuous links between tourism and anthropology through a series of fascinating cases. It focuses on issues of power but also demonstrates the power of fieldwork in getting nuanced responses to the sometimes fractious relationships between hosts and guests.

• 1. Tourism, Power and Culture: Insights from Anthropology - Donald Macleod and James G. CarrierPart I Tourism and the Power Struggle for Resources - Donald Macleod2. Water Sports: A Tug-of War over the River - Veronica Strang3. Heritage and Tourism: Contested Discourses in Djenne, a World Heritage Site in Mali - Charlotte Joy4. Power, Culture and the Production of Heritage - Donald Macleod5. Cultural Perspectives on Tourism and Terrorism - Michael Hitchcock and I Nyoman Darma PutraPart II Tourism and Culture: Presentation, Promotion and the Manipulation of Image - James G. Carrier6. Tourism in the Political Economy of Indigeneity: The Case of Embera Cultural Presentations in Panama - Dimitrios Theodossopoulos7. On ‘Black Culture’ and ‘Black Bodies’: State Discourses, Tourism and Public Policies in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil - Elena Calvo-Gonzalez and Luciana Duccini8. Tourism and the Making of Ethnic Citizenship in Belize - J. Teresa Holmes9. Tourism and its Others: Tourists, Traders and Fishers in Jamaica - Gunilla Sommer and James G. CarrierEpilogue10. Power in Tourism: Tourism in Power - C. Michael Hall