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Encounters across difference : tourism and overcoming subalternity in India
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Bliscy nieznajomi. English
Title
Encounters across difference : tourism and overcoming subalternity in India / Natalia Bloch ; translated by Katarzyna Byłów.
ISBN
9781793624710
1793624712
9781793624727
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
Physical Description
xiii, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Bliscy nieznajomi : turystyka i przezwyciężanie podporządkowania w postkolonialnych Indiach.
Summary
"In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women's empowerment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Bloch, Natalia. Bliscy nieznajomi. English Encounters across difference Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2021
Series
Anthropology of tourism : heritage, mobility, and society
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Anthropology and tourism : dangerous liaisons?
In a circle of mobility : field sites, research partners, methods
The world map as seen from the peripheries : the tourist as an object of gaze
Not-so-empty meeting grounds : self-representations and relationships
Recovering the subaltern voices : tourism and engagement
Tourism as a source of individual empowerment : stories of encounter.
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