The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest

by William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Hal K. Rothman

Book Overview

The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one where people live and make a living. This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region's meaning on the larger stage of national life.

In the first section, Configuring Ethnicity: The Meaning of Who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826329284
• ISBN13: 9780826329288
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"