Making the modern primitive : cultural tourism in the Trobriand Islands /

This book provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as "culturally authentic." In such a place, how are ideas about authenticity implicated in creati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacCarthy, Michelle, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Heritage tourism > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Culture and tourism > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Culture > Economic aspects > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Rites and ceremonies > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethnographic context : the place and the people
  • Modernity and primitivity : definitions and discourses in imagining alterity
  • Fixing the tourist gaze : essentializing the primitive and the creation of desire in textual and visual media
  • Spectacular culture : performance and festivals
  • Producing and consuming experience : commoditizing "real life"
  • Producing and consuming things : material culture as meaningful object
  • Tourist photography : prefiguring and postfiguring the touristic experience
  • Cashing in on culture : the meaning of money in tourist-Trobriand transactions.

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