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Staging Tourism : Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World by Jane C. Desmond (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Desmond, Jane C. Publication Date : Dec 15 2001.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226143767

ISBN-139780226143767

eBay Product ID (ePID)84614

Product Key Features

Number of Pages361 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStaging Tourism : Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World

SubjectIndustries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Evidence, General

Publication Year2001

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLaw, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorJane C. Desmond

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20.1 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-018914

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal338.4791

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Touring the Essential PART I: Staging "The Cultural" INTRODUCTION: Cultural Bodies: Hawaiian Tourism and Performance ONE: Let's Lu'au TWO: Picturing Hawai'i: The "Ideal" Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915 THREE: Pictures Come to Life: Rendering "Hawai'i" in Early Mainland Performances FOUR: Advertising, Racializing, and Performing Hawai'i on Site: The Emergence of Cultural Tourism in the 1920s FIVE: Tourism and the Commodification of Culture, 1930-1940 SIX: Surfers and "Beachboys": Euro-American Representations of Native Hawaiian Men and Interracial Romance CONCLUSION: Up to the Present: Profiling Visitors PART II: Staging "The Natural" INTRODUCTION: Looking at Animals: The Consumption of Radical Bodily Difference SEVEN: The Industries of Species Tourism EIGHT: In/Out-of/In-Fake-Situ: Three Case Studies NINE: Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea World CONCLUSION: Bodies and Tourism Notes References Cited Index

SynopsisFrom 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. Gathering together written accounts, postcards, photographs, advertisements, films, and oral histories as well as her own interpretations of these displays, Desmond gives us a vibrant account of U.S. tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to the present. She then juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism" in the United States, which takes place at zoos, aquariums, and animal theme parks. In each case, Desmond argues, the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the nineteenth century., 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. Gathering together written accounts, postcards, photographs, advertisements, films, and oral histories as well as her own interpretations of these displays, Desmond gives us a vibrant account of U.S. tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to the present. She then juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism" in the United States, which takes place at zoos, aquariums, and animal theme parks. In each case, Desmond argues, the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the nineteenth century.

LC Classification NumberG155.A1D4775 1999