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Author Guerrón-Montero, Carla María, 1970- author.

Title From temporary migrants to permanent attractions : tourism, cultural heritage, and Afro-Antillean identities in Panama / Carla Guerrón Montero.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Panameñismo and Panameñidad : converging ideologies in the construction of Panamanian national identity -- Panama's temporary migrants : the Afro-Antillean presence in the national narrative -- "Panama is more than a canal" : the twenty-first century and the Panamanian tourism industry -- Touring the archipelago of Bocas del Toro -- Afro-Antilleanness represented : museums, theme parks, and the manufacturing of history -- The permanent attractions: music and cuisine as malleable "ethnic commodities" -- Conclusions: Afro-Antillean identity construction, international tourism, and the new symbols of Panameñidad.
Summary "A new reading of Panama's nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Black people -- Race identity -- Panama.
Black people -- Race identity.
Panama.
Antilleans -- Race identity -- Panama.
Antilleans.
Black people -- Panama -- Social conditions.
Black people.
Social conditions.
Antilleans -- Panama -- Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Antillean -- Panama.
Foreign workers, Antillean.
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Panama.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Panama -- Bocas del Toro (Province)
Panama -- Bocas del Toro (Province)
National characteristics, Panamanian.
National characteristics, Panamanian.
Transnationalism.
Transnationalism.
Panama -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Bocas del Toro (Panama : Province) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Guerrón-Montero, Carla María, 1970- From temporary migrants to permanent attractions. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020] 9780817320614 (DLC) 2019052164 (OCoLC)1124906183
ISBN 9780817392970 (electronic book)
0817392971 (electronic book)
9780817320614
081732061X