The tour guide
Subtitle: walking and talking New York
By: Jonathan R. Wynn
Series: Fieldwork encounters and discoveries; Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780226919058; 9780226919065
Subjects: Culture and tourism; Tourism; Description and travel; Tour guides (Persons)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: City murals; title: Characters in the crowds, offering New York "like a native"; title: The work of walking; title: The walking guide, the city, and this book; title: The guiding world; title: From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Statue of Liberty; title: The rise of New York guiding; title: "There are many guides, and only one test"; title: Tensions; title: An untidy career; title: After the rush; title: "Deciding to make a go of it": getting into guiding; title: Working as a guide; title: Harmonizing work, and other rationales; title: Beyond the sidewalk; title: The guide-centered working ecology; title: Guiding relationships; title: Connecting with other guides; title: Wrangling, promoting, connecting: working with organizations; title: " . . . but they also use our name to market themselves"; title: Shticks of the trade; title: "We change our environment"; title: Routemaking; title: Storytelling tricks; title: "Walking is about your senses . . . it's about experiencing"; title: Entertaining identities; title: Working with an audience; title: Interacting with common tourist types; title: Negotiating edutainment; title: "They expect you as the product as well"; title: Situational identities and symbolic armor; title: Re-keying the city; title: Neighborhood narratives and the collective urban culture; title: "I don't own the neighborhood . . . "; title: A different kind of tourism: "teaching the stuff that tourists don't even know that they want to know"; title: "Learning 'the connect'": tours and street intellectualism; title: Urban alchemists; title: The transmutation of the city; title: "It's a charming story, and I couch it that way": shifting the cultural ground; title: "Do you want to come in and see my house?": spontaneity and the city; title: "Teach them how to dress": transforming the visitor into a local and a local into a tourist; title: Ghosts in the machine