Staging Tourism
Subtitle: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780226143767
Subjects: Cultural studies; Tourism industry; 20th century; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Sociology; Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Business & Economics / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Social Science / General; Culture; Heritage tourism; Semiotic models; Symbolic interactionism; Tourism
First sentence: Long before they disembark from the plane, Hawai'i's visitors have encountered the image of the "hula girl."
Description: "From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, Staging Tourism analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies - how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches, and under what conditions - is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender, and cultural affiliation.

These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted, and debated."--BOOK JACKET.