This paper examines the origins, developments and new trends of anthropology of tourism in China through a comparison between China and the West. Chinese anthropologists have, since the end of the ...last century, begun to introduce Western academic achievements and tried to conduct domestic research. In the process of development into a big and great power in tourism, Chinese researchers have intensively absorbed new concepts and new theories from abroad, studied local cases in China’s context, and carry out China-West dialogues in various aspects. Anthropology of tourism in China has seen many breakthroughs in terms of topics, theories, disciplines and methods, contributing its own experiences and new theories to the development of anthropology of tourism worldwide.
O objetivo deste texto é apresentar a observação participante como metodologia eficaz para coleta de dados etnográficos em pesquisas sobre turismo e antropologia. Com uma abordagem da antropologia de ...quatro campos, que se enquadra na chamada Arqueologia Etnográfica, os exemplos se referem ao Arqueoturismo no Brasil, e em conclusão propõe uma reflexão sobre o tema para exemplos de reapropriação e consumo de patrimônios arqueológicos da região amazônica. O método foi empregado enquanto observação participante completa, quando o pesquisador coleta dados incógnito, assumindo o lugar do turista. Argumento que a observação participante completa em patrimônios arqueológicos com uso turístico tem se mostrado um método eficiente na medida em que possibilita o contraste entre o discurso, que inclui informações divulgadas pela mídia ou opinião de entrevistados e gestores, e a prática vivenciada enquanto visitante. Na mesma medida, a influência do pesquisador é minimizada nos resultados, propiciando a compreensão fidedigna do fenômeno.
Many tourist services are connected to the care of the body. The tourist industry proposes different vacation opportunities where the body is the main focus of the experience. This kind of tourism ...implies specific services that show a particular universe of representation and particular languages. In this context, cruise tourism is an interesting case to analyze because a part of its services gives a central role to the body which, on-board, organizes and is organized within dedicated spaces and times. Cruise ships provide spaces for the wellness of the passengers such as swimming pools, gyms, spas or beauty centres. The analysis proposed in this work is based, on one hand, on a recent anthropological fieldwork on a Costa Crociere cruise in the Mediterranean Sea. On cruises people use a limited space, the ship, in different ways. This use also reflects a particular conception of the body, built through an interaction of different systems of representation. So, the ship can become a space for social aggregation or separation. On the other hand, this study considers different textual advertisements from the Costa Web site where the company presents specific services for the body to future passengers . This paper analyzes them using a joint approach: both semiotic and linguistic. Through texts and pictures Costa Crociere creates a “synthesis” of the wellness spaces which prefiguresthe behaviour of the passengers on the cruise. More particularly, in order to analyze advertisements, a cognitive linguistics approach is suitable to show the authors’ linguistic choices and the paratextual elements used to promote the cruise. .
Anthropology has expanded by including within its purview the study of tourism. Although tourism is a subject of relative recent concern among anthropologists, anthropological scholarship on tourism ...has contributed greatly to tourism studies. In this conceptual article, I offer a preliminary
study of the state of tourism studies and anthropology in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on a survey of literature published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in Latin America, the US, and Europe. My primary concern is to discuss the relationship between tourism studies and anthropology
in studying Latin America and the Caribbean. I conclude proposing that for the anthropology of tourism to advance towards more vibrant development, there needs to be an equal and multilingual dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and tourism stakeholders in the Global North and South, as
well as a conceptualization of tourism as one aspect of a larger spectrum of movements, representations, and practices.
Pilgrimage in India is almost as old as Indian civilisation. From detailed study of proto-historic archaeological sites, it is clear that the Hindu practice of mass bathing in rivers/tanks/reservoirs ...on
auspicious occasions dates back to, and derives from, similar practice in the Indus Valley/Harappan Civilisation, i.e. sometime between the third millennium and the first millennium before the Christian
era (BC) (Kaur, 1985; Misra, 1992; Sharma, 1983, 1987). There is little evidence of travel at that time, but the seeds of Indian pilgrimage were sown about then. Hindu pilgrimage has retained many common
features through time and space, including the practice of travelling to bathe and pray at sacred places, and it has some features that link it to folk traditions other than those that can be attributed
to the Indus Valley/Harappan Civilisation or of the so-called 'Aryans', who are supposed to have landed in India later. Therefore, a study of tribal and Hindu pilgrimages would clarify how religion, heritage
and travel are linked, and put pilgrimage and tourism in India in the correct perspective.
In this article we focus on those tangible assets that have been copied and imitated for reasons that are linked to tourism. What we call copysites are the replicas of places, buildings and sites ...that attract visitors interested in cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) and leisure activities, such as, entertainment, shopping, gastronomy etc. We analyse characteristic cases and acknowledge that the creation of copysites has different backgrounds: commercial interests, artistic and aesthetic motives, entertainment reasons, the joy to reproduce forms of success, preservation of the original sites, among others. We focus on who is content with visiting copies of monuments, sculptures, cities or 'fakelore' performances. On the basis of our examples we explain how far the principle of visiting replicated sites can be a success formula and why it seems so important for many tourists to see, check-in and tick-off activities and destinations, even if they are 'almost authentic'.
This paper reports on the impacts of a branch of knowledge—the sociology and anthropology of tourism—on the scholarly community. A convenience sample of titles is used for a citation analysis. ...Results suggest that this literature has a majority of its citation impacts within and a smaller portion outside the tourism research community. The frequency of journal citations and the relatively higher rate of co-citations and bibliographical couplings in this research area indicate a strong and staying impact of these sources on academics. Citations beyond the Anglophone community are notable and implications and limitations of the study also discussed.
L’impact des connaissances: une évaluation de l’érudition en matière de tourisme. Cet article rend compte des impacts d’une branche de connaissances, la sociologie et l’anthropologie du tourisme, sur la communauté érudite. Un échantillon de commodité de titres est utilisé pour une analyse des citations. Les résultats suggèrent que cette littérature a la majorité de ses impacts des citations à l’intérieur et une moindre portion à l’extérieur de la communauté des chercheurs en tourisme. La fréquence des citations de journal et le taux plus élevé de co-citations et d’associations bibliographiques dans ce domaine de recherche indiquent un impact fort et ferme de ces sources sur les académiciens. Les citations hors de la communauté anglophone sont à noter, et les implications et limitations de l’étude sont discutées.
The present study has tried to associate the themes of Kurdish music with tourist attraction activities. On the other hand, it has tried to pave the way to attract cultural tourists to Kurdistan ...through theme diversity and inspiration by natural ecological phenomena and also to attract those tourists with different tastes who are interested in local and traditional music. To achieve the above goals, different methods have been used including interviewing with celebrities, using existing resources such as audio versions of the traditional Kurdish music in the form of DVDs, CDs and also its video versions. Kurdish language is one of the most original languages in Iran that over the time has maintained its identity despite foreigners' onslaught and has not been subjected to too many changes. Many experts have expressed that the traditional Kurdish music is one of the richest traditional Iranian music. Using different themes, inspiring by ecological and natural phenomena and also social and cultur-al themes are some of the characteristics of the Kurdish music.Taking advantages of the available potentials in each region promotes the Iranian tourism identity all around the world. Using traditional Kurdish music along with the other attractions in the Kurdistan region improves the internal or domestic tourism. In addition to increasing the internal trips, it establishes friendship among people all around the country (Iran).
In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book ...investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself.
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