Karen Stocker

Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica

Pitfalls and Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the consequences-positive, negative, and otherwise-of tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to all parties. To examine both pitfalls and positive outcomes of tourism, it compares modes of tourism in destinations that are locally owned and foreign owned, ecotourism destinations, beach tourism, adventure tourism sites, and agrotourism projects. Furthermore, the author draws from two decades of research in two distinct communities to trace the ways in which the development of tourism in one community provided the springboard for changing gender roles and new opportunities for women, and, in the other, how the promise of tourism has spurred a cultural revitalization and positive change in Indigenous identity. Interviews with three generations of women in one tourist destination show generational changes in perspectives on tourism, and interviews covering the same time span show how in an Indigenous reservation poised to enter the heritage tourism industry, tourism offers a positive alternative to exploitative forms of labor and the stigma once associated with Indigeneity in that region. Interviews with locals in all four sites reveal the ways in which tourism carried out conscientiously would benefit them. These, juxtaposed with interviews of tourists regarding what they seek through tourism, offer a means of designing a mutually beneficial form of tourism. In sum, this book puts into conversation the varied views of those positioned differently within the realm of tourism in order to inform tourists and foreign land owners as to how they might glean the advantages that such an experience may bring to the traveler, while also playing up the benefits of these endeavors to local communities, and minimizing the potential damage these practices may cause.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780739140215
• ISBN-10: 0739140213
• Artikelnr.: 37664303

Autorenporträt

By Karen Stocker

Inhaltsangabe

  Revised Table of Contents:   Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2:
Methodological Considerations An Anthropologist, a Quaker, and Porn Star
Walk Into a Bar: Participant Observation Interviews An Invitation to
Insight: Methodological Insights and Considerations of Objectivity Metiche
Anthropology, "Characters," and Contributions. Engaged Anthropology Ethical
Considerations and Consent A Globalized Context for Localized Research
Chapter 3: Community Portraits: Two Beach Towns Playa del Carmen: A
"Locally-Owned" Beach Town Who Counts as a Local: Costa Rican-Foreigner
Interaction and Perceptions On Locals and Outsiders: Varied Labels Expat
Experiences Segregated Spaces Persistence of Local Culture Tourism-Related
Changes: Cost of Living, Corruption, and Water Playa Extranjera: A
Foreign-Owned Beach Town Locals: All or Nothing Changing Populations and
Foreign Locals' Experiences Drugs, Prostitution, and Development "Feels
Like Home": Catering to Foreigners Overdevelopment, Water, and Tico
Resistance   Chapter 4: Nambué, The Chorotega Reservation: Portrait of a
Community on the Cusp of Tourism Indigeneity in Flux: The Reservation's
History Changing Indigenous Identities: From Shame to Pride Tourism as a
Motivator for Revitalization of Tradition and Chorotega Customs Maintained
Witchcraft and Oral Tradition Globalization and More Recent Concerns
Division and Unity: Community Life in the Reservation Community Changes
Land Rights, Water, and Community Concerns   Chapter 5: Montañosa, The
Rainforest Community "Facets of a Diamond": Official Histories of Montañosa
Who Counts as a Local: Complex Categories Quaker Comments on Local
Belonging: Language and Community Tico Perceptions of Quakers Conservation
and Religious Philosophy Enacted Social Integration Segregated Spaces The
Effects of Change Changing Economies: From Farming to Tourism From
Ecotourism to Adventure Tourism and their Respective Clientele The
Commission System and Competition Among Businesses From Agriculture to
Tourism and Back Again Community Concerns and the Downsides of Tourism:
Water Issues, Drugs, Prostitution The Larger Context   Chapter 6: "The Cows
Will Be Your University!": Positive Effects of Tourism Changing Gender
Roles "Art Has Been Like a Medicine for Us" The Jam Revolution: A Second
Women's Cooperative Dancing While Washing the Clothes New Challenges for
the Cooperative Positive Effects of Tourism Jobs and Education, Broadly
Defined Infrastructure Cross-Cultural Understanding Conservation   Chapter
7: Negative Effects of Tourism Drug Trade and Abuse What Happens in
Vegas... Prostitution Sex Tourism and Romance Tourism: Variations on a
Theme? Muddying the Waters. How "Eco" is Ecotourism? Additional Concerns
The Trade-Offs of Tourism   Chapter 8: Performing Local Life on the
Reservation "Patenting the Pueblo": A Trademark for Tradition Tourism, the
Commodification of Culture, and Authenticating Cultural Practices From
Stigma to Economic Value Chorotega TM: Local Products Symbolizing
Indigeneity. Media and Other Influences Ownership of Tradition through
Corporate Strategy Local Disputes over Cultural Ownership Local Festivals
and Culture Performed for Insiders Insiders and Outsiders. A Relative
Matter Obstacles to the Trademark Performing Indigeneity in the Reservation
  Chapter 9: Performing Identity in the Other Communities of Study Heritage
Tourism and Authenticity Branding Nature Performing Local Life Scripted
Lives and Sanitized Tours Sustainability, Locally-Owned, Organic, Fair
Trade, and Family-Owned: Marketable Labels Bob Marley in Costa Rica
Parallel Performances Marketing the Nation Performance of Identity among
Tourists and Others   Chapter 10: Sanitized Tours of Exploitable Work
Zones. The Nexus of Tourism and Its Alternatives "Learning to Walk through
Mud Without Getting Muddy": Bananera Memories   Chapter 11: Striking a
Balance: Possibilities for Responsible Tourism Recommendations for Tourists
Recommendations to Potential Expatriates or Foreign Residents Advice from
Expats for Expats Recommendations for Costa Rican Towns or the National
Government Trade-Offs, Revisited