Anthropology of Tourism

by Dennison Nash and Nash

This book is designed to give an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. It aims to engage the reader with questions that anthropologists have raised about tourist and the ways that they have dealt with them in their research. Basic research from three theoretical perspectives is reviewed and assessed: tourist as a form of development or acculturation, as a personal transition, and as a kind of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080423981
• ISBN13: 9780080423982
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"