| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one where people live and make a living. This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region's meaning on the larger stage of national life. In the first section, "Configuring Ethnicity: The Meaning of Who You Are," Chris Wilson, Phoebe Kropp, and Rena Swentzell explicate tourist sites in Albuquerque, California's Camino Real, and Taos. Essays on "Collecting and Belonging" include discussions of scrapbooks, souvenirs, and virtual tourism on the Internet by Marguerite Shaffer, Leah Dilworth, and Erika Bsumek. The third section, "The Practice of Tourism," offers the perspectives of William L. Bryan, Jr., a leading ecotourism operator, and Susan Guyette and David White, who argue for the autonomy of native people in presenting their experience to visitors. The final section looks at how places are transformed by tourism. Sylvia Rodriguez examines the power dynamics of tourism, Char Miller chronicles the way San Antonio has become a colonial town, and volume editor Hal Rothman presents Las Vegas as a place where authenticity and inauthenticity are purposefully indistinguishable--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
Ethnic/sexual personas in tricultural New Mexico / Chris Wilson -- In search of history and romance on El Camino Real / Phoebe S. Kropp -- Anglo artists and the creation of Pueblo worlds / Rina Swentzell -- Playing American: the Southwestern scrapbooks of Mildred E. Baker / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- "Handmade by an American Indian": souvenirs and cultural economy of Southwestern tourism / Leah Dilworth -- Exchanging places: virtual tourism, vicarious travel, and the consumption of Southwestern Indian artifacts / Erika Marie Bsumek -- Appropriate cultural tourism- can it exist? searching for an answer: three Arizona case studies / William L. Bryan, Jr. -- Reducing the impacts of tourism through cross-cultural planning / Susan Guyette and David White -- Tourism, difference, and power in the borderlands / Sylvia Rodriguez -- Tourist trap: visitors and the modern San Antonio economy / Char Miller -- Cultural tourism and the future: what the new Las Vegas tells us about ourselves / Hal Rothman. |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism -- Southwest, New.
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Heritage tourism. |
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New Southwest. |
| Added Author |
Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.
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William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Culture of tourism, the tourism of culture. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)606991887 |
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Online version: Culture of tourism, the tourism of culture. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)608951817 |
| ISBN |
0826329284 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780826329288 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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