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Hosts and Guests

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Description for Hosts and Guests Paperback. Original essays on the profound cultural impact of tourism in societies ranging form the American southwest to Tonga to Alaska to Iran. Editor(s): Smith, Valene L. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 illus. BIC Classification: JHM; KNSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.

Tourism—one of the world's largest industries—has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in turn effect profound cultural change in the places they visit, and the contributors to this work all attend to the impact these "guests" have on their "hosts."

In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812212808
SKU
V9780812212808
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About Valene L. Smith
Valene L. Smith is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico.

Reviews for Hosts and Guests
"A pioneering collection of 16 scholarly papers in the anthropology of tourism. . . . It has much to interest the casual reader. . . . A mirror of human behavior."—New York Times "Provocative and theoretically stimulating."—AmericanAnthropologist

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