| CODE | ANT2052 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Anthropology of Tourism | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit begins with an overview of the theoretical foundations of the study of tourism in anthropology, namely by 1) focusing on tourism as an individual journey of self-transformation, and 2) focusing on tourism as a parallel process of socio-economic devlopment. Following this theoretical introduction to tourism, the unit takes a thematic approach to tourism, focusing on the impact of tourism on space (and its transformation), cross-cultural engagement and cultural hegemony, exoticisation, and heritage and environmental conservation. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit is designed to enable students to realize that the current debates in, and language of, tourism studies are the outcome of a longer historical process and are reflective of global socio-economic relations; secondly, to enable students to place the academic disciplines, government policies, and practical policy applications attached to tourism in their specific social, cultural, and political settings; and thirdly, to equip students with the methods developed by anthropologists for evaluating and comparing different ideologies and practical projects subsumed under the broader umbrella term of tourism. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - write a clear summary of the different experiences of tourism and the tourist encounter across different regions of the world; - compare in speech and in writing the similarities and differences between 'host' and 'guest' approaches to, and practices of, tourism; - describe in speech and in writing the social and the cultural environment which needs to be understood before any tourism-directed strategy can be designed appropriately or implemented practically; - to write at length in a clear fashion how knowledge of conflicts arising as a result of tourism practices, provides a guide to the relevance or otherwise of present policies and projects. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - (generically) specify in speech and in writing how tourism-oriented policies and practices are the outcome of local politics and cultural attitudes; - (practically) decode the language of particular tourism oriented policies and practical projects in local settings, so that the student sees that they are responses to particular local pressures, contain particular values about how the world should work, and make particular assumptions about how the human world actually works. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main texts - Abram, S., Macleod, D., & Waldren, J. D. (Eds.). (2021). Tourists and tourism: Identifying with people and places. Routledge. - Boissevain, J. (Ed.). (1996). Coping with tourists: European reactions to mass tourism (Vol. 1). Berghahn Books. - Coleman, S., & Crang, M. (Eds.). (2002). Tourism: Between place and performance. Berghahn books. - Crick, M. (2012). Resplendent sites, discordant voices: Sri Lankans and international tourism. Routledge. - Salazar, N. B., & Graburn, N. H. (Eds.). (2014). Tourism imaginaries: Anthropological approaches. Berghahn books. - Smith, V. L. (Ed.). (2012). Hosts and guests: The anthropology of tourism. University of Pennsylvania Press. Supplementary Texts - Bruner, E. M. (2005). Culture on tour: Ethnographies of travel. University of Chicago Press. - Brennan, D. (2004). What's love got to do with it?. In What's Love Got to Do with It?. Duke University Press. - Kelner, S. (2012). Tours that bind: Diaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism. NYU Press. - Picard, D. (2011). Tourism, magic and modernity: Cultivating the human garden (Vol. 32). Berghahn Books. - Sharpley, R., & Stone, P. R. (Eds.). (2009). The darker side of travel: The theory and practice of dark tourism. Channel view publications. - Simoni, V. (2016). Tourism and informal encounters in Cuba (Vol. 38). Berghahn Books. - Skinner, J., & Theodossopoulos, D. (Eds.). (2011). Great expectations: Imagination and anticipation in tourism (Vol. 34). Berghahn Books. - Theodossopoulos, D. (2003). Troubles with turtles: cultural understandings of the environment on a Greek Island (Vol. 15). Berghahn Books. - Vickers, L., & Wilson-Graham, C. (2015). Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs. University Press of Florida. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Fieldwork and Seminar | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Maurice Said |
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