Publication

2001-12-15 - University Of Chicago Press

Language

English

Word Count

90,250 words, Guess

Page Count

361 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99018914
  • LibraryThing912442
  • Goodreads367234

Classifications

  • LCCG155.A1D4775 1999

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.

First Sentence

Long before they disembark from the plane, Hawai'i's visitors have encountered the image of the "hula girl."

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