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<span class="hl"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span> <br>
<span class="hl"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Envisioning
Eden: </span></b></span><b style=""><span
style="">Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and
Beyond</span></b> <br>
<span class="hl"><span style="">Noel B. Salazar</span></span>
<br>
<span class="hl"><span style="">Berghahn Books,
November 2010</span></span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SalazarEnvisioning">http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SalazarEnvisioning</a><span
class="hl"></span></span> <br>
<span class="hl"><span lang="EN-US">(Vol. 31, <i
style="">New Directions in Anthropology</i>)</span></span>
<br>
<span class="hl"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">As tourism service standards become
more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are
conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even
increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than
two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and
Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth
investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of
contemporary tourism. Each destination offers
examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives
and practices are informed by widely circulating
imaginaries of the past as well as personal
fantasies of the future. A comparative and
discourse-centered analysis reveals how local
guides in Yogyakarta and Arusha insure the continued
reproduction and localization of tourist fantasies,
but they also use the privileged contact with
foreigners to foment their own imaginations of
“paradise on earth.” The book focuses on the human
mechanics of globalization, cosmopolitan mobility,
and the role of the imaginary in giving people’s
lives meaning, demonstrating essential ways in which
ethnographies of tourism and travel contribute to
ongoing theoretical and methodological debates about
the local–global nexus.</span><br>
<span class="hl"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span> <br>
<b style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-US">Table of
Contents</span></i></b> <br>
<strong><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></strong><span
lang="EN-US">Foreword: Circulating Culture (by <i
style="">Prof. Em.</i> <i style="">Edward M.
Bruner</i>)</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">Preface</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 1.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Preparing a Roadmap</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 2.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Two Destinations, One Destiny</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 3.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> ‘Seducation’</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 4.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds</span>
<br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 5.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Guiding Roles and Rules</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 6.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Fantasy Meets Reality</span> <br>
<span style="" lang="EN-US">Chapter 7.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> Coming Home</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"></span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"></span><br>
<em><span style="" lang="EN-US">"I am very impressed
with this book. It is the best ethnography of tour
guide training and performance to date. Indeed its
probing analyses and its many comments make a
great contribution to our understanding of
contemporary international and intercultural
tourism. It is very well written and superbly
referenced."</span></em> <br>
<strong><span style="" lang="EN-US">Nelson Graburn</span></strong><span
lang="EN-US">, Professor Emeritus, University of
California, Berkeley</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span> <br>
<em><span style="" lang="EN-US">"This is a lively and
enjoyable book based on rigorous research which
highlights the power and persuasiveness of
international tourism while, at the same time,
critically, it reminds us that tourism is
ultimately about people and their stories."</span></em>
<br>
<strong><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mike Robinson</span></strong><span
lang="EN-US">, Director, Centre for Tourism and
Cultural Change</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span> <br>
<em><span style="" lang="EN-US">"This book is the
reference for tourism imaginaries academia was
waiting for. Based on excellent ethnographic work
that disentangles 'glocal' issues, it demonstrates
that globalization divides the planet as much as
bringing it together. Tourism and the encounters
it generates are pertinently analyzed as central
pieces of the new anthropology of glocalization."</span></em>
<br>
<strong><span style="" lang="EN-US">Maria
Gravari-Barbas</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">,
Director IREST, UNESCO Chair:
Culture-Tourism-Development</span> <br>
<em><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></em><br>
<em><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></em><span
lang="EN-US"></span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US">Noel
B. Salazar</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> received
his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a
Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research
interests include anthropologies of (im)mobility and
travel, the local–global nexus, discourses and
imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts,
heritage, and cosmopolitanism.</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">Noel B. Salazar</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">Cultural Mobilities Research
(CuMoRe)</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">Faculty of Social Sciences</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">University of Leuven</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">Parkstraat 45, bus 3615</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US">BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium</span> <br>
<span lang="EN-US"><a
href="mailto:noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be">noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be</a></span>
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