Cultural preservation, tourism and ‘donkey travel’ on China’s frontier

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20051295
AutoresRobert Shepherd (0000-0001-9669-3697, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Páginas269-279
Data de publicação2008-09-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoAsia on tour (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203891803-30
OpenAlexW2244352455
ISBN9780203891803
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

As the editors to this volume highlight, in anthropology and sociology, much attention has been paid to the impact of tourism, mainly from the ‘West,’ on local cultural practices in non-Western societies (cf. Greenwood 1989; MacCannell 1992; Linnekin 1997). Implicit in these concerns has been an assumption that increased tourism flows to a site inevitably lead to a dilution of authentic cultural practices as local residents take on performative roles and become ‘Westernized’ (cf. Ritzer and Liska 1997: 97-101). The net result of this process becomes what Claude Lévi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques (1957) lamented as a futile search for a ‘vanished reality,’ as authentic cultural practices forever remain beyond the grasp of (Western) visitors

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Cultural tourism · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Performative utterance · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy