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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810308603321

Autore

Babb Florence E

Titolo

The tourism encounter : fashioning Latin American nations and histories / / Florence E. Babb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7560-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/7918

Soggetti

Turisme

Turisme cultural

Política

Memòria col·lectiva

Culture and tourism - Latin America

Tourism - Political aspects - Latin America

Collective memory - Latin America

Llibres electrònics

Amèrica Llatina

Latin America Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Che, Chevys, and Hemingway's daiquiris : Cuban tourism in transition -- Recycled sandalistas : from revolution to resorts in the new Nicaragua -- Forgetting the past : Andean cultural tourism after the violence -- Remembering the revolution : indigenous culture and Zapatista tourism -- Sex and sentiment in Cuban and Nicaraguan tourism -- Race, gender, and cultural tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico -- Conclusion: post-tourism and nationhood.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations that have undergone periods of conflict or rebellion.