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Staging tourism : bodies on display from Waikiki to Sea World / Jane C. Desmond.

by Desmond, Jane.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Culture -- Semiotic models.

Symbolic interactionism.

Heritage tourism.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/99018914.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi052/99018914.html

0226143759 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226143750 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226143767 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780226143767 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xxv, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Let's Lūʻau -- Picturing Hawaiʻi: the "ideal" native and the origins of tourism, 1880-1915 -- Pictures come to life: rendering "Hawaiʻi" in early mainland hula performances -- Advertising, racializing, and performing Hawaiʻi on site: the emergence of cultural tourism in the 1920s -- Tourism and the commodification of culture, 1930-1940 -- Surfers and "beachboys": Euro-American representations of native Hawaiian men and interracial romance -- Up to the present: profiling visitors -- Looking at animals: the consumption of radical bodily difference -- The industries of species tourism -- In/out-of/in-fake-situ: three case studies -- Performing nature: Shamu at Sea World -- Bodies and tourism.

"From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, Staging Tourism analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies - how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches, and under what conditions - is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender, and cultural affiliation. These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted, and debated."--BOOK JACKET.

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