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Cultural Tourism in Latin America: The Politics of Space and Imagery

by Michiel Baud , Annelou Ypeij
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004176409
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 324
  • Original Price: GBP 89.6
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 681 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Popular Culture

Cultural tourism has become an important source of revenue for Latin American countries, especially in the Andes and Meso-America. Tourists go there looking for authentic cultures and artefacts and interact directly with indigenous people. Cultural tourism therefore takes place in close engagement with local societies. This book analyse the effects of cultural tourism and the processes of change it provokes in local societies. It analyses the intricacies of informal markets, the consequences of enforcing tourist policies, the varied encounters of foreign tourists with local populations, and the images and identities that result from the development of tourism. The contributors convincingly show that the tourist experience and the reactions to tourist activities can only be understood if analysed from within local contexts.

Contributors: Michiel Baud, Annelou Ypeij, Lisa Breglia, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Ben Feinberg, Carla Guerrón Montero, Walter E. Little, Keely B. Maxwell, Lynn A. Meisch, Zoila S. Mendoza, Alan Middleton, Beatrice Simon, Griet Steel, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina.

"Tourism in Latin America - especially the sort of cultural tourism that plays to desires for authentic experiences - has become a key foreigner currency earner for many countries. This important volume examines the impact of tourism across the region, providing a rich survey of the range of experiences and teasing out the theoretical implications. From the almost surreal Mi Pueblito theme park in Panama to mushroom-hunting tourists in Oaxaca to the eco-trail leading to Machu Pichu, these chapters present compelling cases that speak to identity formation, nationalism, and economic impacts. As the contributors show, benefits are differentially accrued to various actors - and often not to the communities that tourists come to see. Yet, the contributors also make it clear that in struggles over ownership, authenticity, and political representation, local communities actively shape the contours and meanings of tourism, at times successfully leveraging cultural capital into economic gains."
Edward F. Fischer,
Director Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University

Michiel Baud (PhD in history, 1991, Utrecht University) is Director of CEDLA and Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He co- edited with Rosanne Rutten, Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Annelou Ypeij (PhD in anthropology, Utrecht University 1995) is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at CEDLA. She co-edited with Annelies Zoomers La Ruta Andina. Turismo y desarrollo sostenible en Perú y Bolivia (Quito: Abya Yala etc., 2006).

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