[Paperback book] 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 2012 [paperback version]
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. The author 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.


/*Endorsements*/*/
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/"Noel Salazar's contribution to understanding globalization and 
localization processes is informed and persuasive, using tourism-the 
phenomenon which has turned our world into a global village-to 
illuminate, par excellence, the resulting intersects, overlaps, and 
especially clashes now dominating our shared history."/
*Jafar Jafari*, Founding Editor, */Annals of Tourism Research/*

/"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, Ironbridge International Institute for 
Cultural Heritage


*Reviews *

"/[This volume] is arguably the best ethnography of tour guide training 
and performance available, certainly in the context of less-developed 
nations...This is a very well-written book and, like all good guides, 
Salazar uses storytelling well to convey his arguments to the reader. 
The volume is also well illustrated with the author's own 
photographs...Salazar draws upon a raft of new theoretical material and 
research to inform his perspectives, which provides for solid analysis, 
stimulating discussion and a good springboard for researchers looking to 
explore similar themes. The writing also benefits from his rigorous/ 
/fieldwork and own personal experiences. Salazar brings a passion to his 
work, which makes for an interesting and valuable 
contribution/.../[Edward Bruner's foreword is] an unexpected delight./"
*International Journal of Heritage Studies*

"Envisioning Eden /summarises a number of major scholarly discussions, 
brings them into a fruitful dialogue with ethnographic details, and 
provides a theoretical roadmap for further investigations of various 
kinds of mobility and encounters with cultural Others. This volume is 
highly recommended for students and scholars interested in tourism, 
globalization, and mobility studies, as well as for scholars with a 
regional focus on Indonesia or Tanzania./"
*Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale*

/"Salazar's study provides an interesting, innovative and fresh approach 
to local-to-global dynamics. The strength of the book is its richness in 
terms of theoretical thinking; Salazar manages to address complex issues 
in an engaging way and the book contributes much to the theoretical 
discussions which it tackles"/
*Ethnos*


*Noel B. Salazar* received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania 
and is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, 
Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and 
travel, the local--global nexus, discourses and imaginaries 
of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.

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Noel B. Salazar, PhD
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Author of Envisioning Eden 
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SalazarEnvisioning>
EASA Executive Committee (2011-2013)
IUAES Permanent Council National Delegate
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