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Staging tourism : bodies on display from Waikiki to Sea World

Title
Staging tourism : bodies on display from Waikiki to Sea World / Jane C. Desmond.
Author
Desmond, Jane
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Subject
  • Tourism
  • Culture > Semiotic models
  • Symbolic interactionism
  • Heritage tourism
  • Ecotourism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Touring the Essential -- Pt. I. Staging "The Cultural" -- Introduction: Cultural Bodies: Hawaiian Tourism and Performance. 1. Let's Lu'au. 2. Picturing Hawai'i: The "Ideal" Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915. 3. Pictures Come to Life: Rendering "Hawai'i" in Early Mainland Hula Performances. 4. Advertising, Racializing, and Performing Hawai'i on Site: The Emergence of Cultural Tourism in the 1920s. 5. Tourism and the Commodification of Culture, 1930-1940. 6. Surfers and "Beachboys": Euro-American Representations of Native Hawaiian Men and Interracial Romance. Conclusion: Up to the Present: Profiling Visitors -- Pt. II. Staging "The Natural" -- Introduction: Looking at Animals: The Consumption of Radical Bodily Difference. 7. The Industries of Species Tourism. 8. In/Out-of/In-Fake-Situ: Three Case Studies. 9. Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea World. Conclusion: Bodies and Tourism.
ISBN
  • 0226143759 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226143767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99018914
OCLC
ocm40821028
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries