Format:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Edition:
Also issued in print and PDF version
ISBN:
0813554071
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081355408X
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0813554063
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1461934915
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9780813554075
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9780813554082
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9780813554068
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9781461934912
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Also issued in print and PDF version.
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In English
Additional Edition:
Print version Ambivalent Encounters, Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India New Brunswick, N.J ISBN 9780813554075
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Varanasi
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Tourismus
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Kinderarbeit
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
