03936oam 22007814a 450 991016665840332120240314012554.00-8135-5408-X10.36019/9780813554082(CKB)2670000000397254(OCoLC)852896330(CaPaEBR)ebrary10733851(SSID)ssj0000830933(PQKBManifestationID)11462082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000830933(PQKBWorkID)10820621(PQKB)10469835(OCoLC)830023886(MdBmJHUP)muse18898(DE-B1597)526438(DE-B1597)9780813554082(Au-PeEL)EBL1295120(CaPaEBR)ebr10733851(CaONFJC)MIL504585(OCoLC)853363023(ScCtBLL)45aa8cd5-b367-474d-989e-f4a043fdeb9e(MiAaPQ)EBC1295120(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39714(EXLCZ)99267000000039725420120210d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmbivalent EncountersChildhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India /Jenny Huberman1st ed.New BrunswickRutgers University Press2012New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press,2012.©2012.1 online resource (245 p.)Rutgers series in childhood studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8135-5407-1 0-8135-5406-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? -- The minds and hearts of children -- Conceptions of value -- Earning, spending, saving -- Something extra -- Money, gender, and the (im)morality of exchange -- Conclusion.Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction. It examines the role of gender in mediating experiences of social change-girls are praised by locals for participating constructively in the informal tourist economy while boys are accused of deviant behavior. Huberman is interested equally in the children's and adults' perspectives; her own experiences as a western visitor and researcher provide an intriguing entry into her interpretations.Social interactionIndiaVārānasiTouristsIndiaVārānasiTourismIndiaVārānasiChild laborIndiaVārānasiAnthropologyIndiaVaranasiWestern cultureSocial interactionTouristsTourismChild labor331.3/18Huberman Jennifer916874MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910166658403321Ambivalent encounters2055490UNINA