[New book announcement] Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

[Noel B. Salazar]

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*Envisioning Eden: **Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond*
Noel B. Salazar
Berghahn Books, November 2010
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SalazarEnvisioning
(Vol. 31, /New Directions in Anthropology/)

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.

*/Table of Contents/*
**Foreword: Circulating Culture (by /Prof. Em./ /Edward M. Bruner/)
Preface
Chapter 1.Preparing a Roadmap
Chapter 2.Two Destinations, One Destiny
Chapter 3.'Seducation'
Chapter 4.Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds
Chapter 5.Guiding Roles and Rules
Chapter 6.Fantasy Meets Reality
Chapter 7.Coming Home


/"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."/
*Nelson Graburn*, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

/"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."/
*Mike Robinson*, Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

/"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."/
*Maria Gravari-Barbas*, Director IREST, UNESCO Chair: 
Culture-Tourism-Development
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*Noel B. Salazar*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.

Noel B. Salazar
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615
BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium
noel.salazar at soc.kuleuven.be <mailto:noel.salazar at soc.kuleuven.be>