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Bali and Beyond - Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Bali and Beyond - Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Asian Anthropologies
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Based on field research carried out over two decades, the author
surveys the development of the anthropology of tourism and its
significance, using case studies drawn from Indonesia, New Guinea
and Japan. He argues that tourism, once seen as rather peripheral
by anthropologists, has to be treated as a phenomenon of major
importance, both because the size of the flows of people and
capital involved, and because it is one of the major sites in which
the meeting and hybridization of culture takes place. Tourism, he
suggests, leads not to the destruction of local cultures, as many
critics have implied, but rather to the emergence of new cultural
forms. The central part of the book presents a detailed case-study
of the island of Bali in Indonesia. It traces the development of
tourism there during the colonial period, and the ways in which
"Balinese traditional culture" was developed first by western
artists and scholars in the colonial period, and more recently by
Balinese government officials in the guise of "cultural tourism."
The general theme of the "presentation of tradition" is also
discussed in relation to Toraja funerals in the Indonesian province
of Sulawesi, western visitors to the Sepik River in
Papua-New-Guinea, and the small city of Tono in northern Japan
which has become a center for the study of folk-lore.
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