Tourism, Heritage and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community

by Heidi Dahles

Book Overview

Based on anthropological fieldwork in the 1990s, this book provides an ethnographic perspective in its examination of the politics and policies of cultural tourism as they were played out under the Indonesian New Order regime. The successful New Order tourism policy ensured that tourism development both contributed to, and benefited from, increasing economic prosperity and a long stretch of political stability. However, that success has come at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138863408
• ISBN13: 9781138863408
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"