Anthropologists to Think Through Tourism
The Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of UK and Ireland (ASA) is to hold their conference at London Metropolitan University from 10th – 13th April. The conference is to be entitled “Thinking Through Tourism”. The Association believes that the conference theme will provide an opportunity to review the place of anthropology in the interdisciplinary study of tourism and the impact of tourism on the methodology, theoretical development and practice of anthropology as a discipline.
The conference will address the following themes:
Cultural Ownership: Encompassing the political mobilization of culture within tourism.
Tourism, politics and development: Questions of power and development.
Enchantment: The imaginative and symbolic structures of tourism.
Tourism as an ethnographic field: Including reflections on tourism as an object of anthropology.
Mobilities: Tourism as a particular category of mobility.
Further conference details are at: http://www.theasa.org/asa07
Valere Tjolle
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