Holiday in Mexico
Subtitle: critical reflections on tourism and tourist encounters
By: edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood.
Contributors: Berger, Dina.; Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-
Series: American encounters/global interactions; American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822345541; 9780822345718
Subjects: Tourism -- Mexico; Americans -- Travel -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: tourism studies and the tourism dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood; title: The U.S./Mexican war and the beginnings of American tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman; title: Teotihuacán: showcase for the centennial / Christina Bueno; title: On the selling of Rey Momo : early tourism and the marketing of carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood; title: Goodwill ambassadors on holiday : tourism, diplomacy, and Mexico/United States relations / Dina Berger; title: Behind the noir border : tourism, the vice racket, and power relations in Baja California's border zone, 1938/65 / Eric M. Schantz; title: Fun in Acapulco? the politics of development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett; title: Colonial outpost to artists' Mecca: conflict and collaboration in the development of San Miguel de Allende's tourism industry / Lisa Pinley Covert; title: José Cuervo and the gentrified worm : food, drink, and the touristic consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher; title: Cancún and the campo : indigenous migration and tourism development in the Yucatán Peninsula  /  M. Bianet Castellanos; title: Marketing Mexico's great masters : folk art tourism and the neoliberal politics of exhibition / Mary K. Coffey; title: Golfing in the desert : Los Cabos and post-PRI tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza; title: The beach and beyond : observations from a travel writer on dreams, decadence, and defense / Barbara Kastelein; title: Conclusion: should we stay or should we go? reflections on tourism past and present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger.