Volunteer Tourism
This volume had escaped my notice, and the introduction makes the rest look worth getting. Have a look here at WandaVrasti.
Devil’s Lake and Salmon River Encampment
Devil’s Lake is in Lincoln City, in fact it is the only such lake and state park completely contained within a city …
Georg Materna: “Two tribes of capitalists”: Neoconomists and politiconomists in a Senegalese marketplace
Research on capitalism commonly distinguishes between neoclassical economics and political economy. If neoclassical economics have dominated scientific debates since the 1930s at …
Restored 18th century Danish tavern to be inaugurated today
[JH comment: now if you were plying the illicit opium trade on behalf of dodgy East India Company officials, you’d also need …
Backpackers in Calcutta again
From: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice edited by Dr. Greg Richards, Dr. Julie Wilson 2004 And From: A …
The Rumour of Calcutta
Reviews of a twenty year old book. Yup, Thanks heaps: Filed under: books, calcutta, tourism
Guest Post: An Encounter with Basket Traditions in Zanzibar City
I am very happy to here share a guest post by Kurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell of the Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, …
“Capitalism Is Just around the Corner…”
A view on tourism and economic development from rural Cuba Expanding private business “Everyone is now crazy for renting,” my friend Julio …
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
With 1 billion annual tourists worldwide (and rising), the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) declared 2017 the Year of Sustainable Tourism. But how—and …
The Perils and Privileges of an Amazonian Hallucinogen
As practices associated with the use of ayahuasca grow in popularity, so do concerns about the appropriation of Indigenous traditions. Barbara Fraser …
Videos: The Adventures of the Master Class Reconsidered
Here we return to the theme of the previous feature on “reality tourism,” and the promotional materials produced by the Razor’s Edge …
Images Matter #ThinkingVisually
Though the visual is well established in areas of study like anthropology, many other social science disciplines have been slow to incorporate …
Inside a Moroccan Marijuana Farm
With my gaze fixed on the horizon, I stood at the bow of a ferry that carried me across the Strait of …
‘This House Is Occupied’: Demolition Politics in the Belgian ‘spookstad’ of Doel
Last week I visited the small ghost town (“spookstad” in Dutch) of Doel in northwest Belgium. Doel has been at the center …
How Hostels Have Turned Backpackers Into “Brokepackers”
Hostels used to be reliably inexpensive options for backpackers. That is no longer the case. Michelle Jones In May 2014, having recently …
Ethnography & Tourism: Part III
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger …
Ethnography & Tourism: Part III
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger …
Ethnography & Tourism: Part II
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger …
Ethnography & Tourism: Part II
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger …
Ethnography & Tourism: Part I
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger …
Anthro in the news 10/10/16
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist …
Colonialism & white saviourism in tourism and trade
Travel writer/ editor/ photographer Bani Amor‘s work in Bitch magazine tackles the question of what it means to decolonize travel culture (tourism) as …
MythGeographies – walking stuff
this came through today, and is interesting enough to recycle. I hope they will not mind, given a certain promotional tone, I …
La ligne d’écume: Encountering the French beach
new book from pavement with chapters by Ffrench, Collier, Launchbury, Gledhill, Fuggle etc.,… \ Edited by Sophie Fuggle and Nicholas Gledhill As …