[ORDER SOLUTION] Anthropology of Tourism

The topic of your paper will be “Questioning Tourism as Advertised.” Choose a holiday destination and search for advertisements promoting this destination in various forms of media (e.g., printed ads, websites, and commercials). Critically analyze these advertisements (do not simply describe what they show, delve into the meanings behind them). Think about what they emphasize (in regards to, for example, the landscape, cultures, and local people at the destination) and what they leave out that you as a tourism student would like to know.

For your analysis, you are expected to use points from at least 8 class readings. Films and non-class sources count in addition to the 8 readings. This paper is expected to be about 1,500 words in length (excluding the reference list).

This paper is an exercise in critical thinking, in developing a thesis or central argument, in synthesizing scholarly sources, and in properly acknowledging the ideas, wording, and data of other authors. Students must “exhibit some minimal level of competence in essay writing and the appropriate level of knowledge of the content of the course” in order to obtain credit(s). (

All papers will be subject to submission to Turnitin.com for textual similarity review.

The goal of your research is to analyze (not summarize) the ways in which tourism is promoted in various forms of the media using points from the authors in the first eight or nine weeks of the course, when we read Chambers’ book and the chapters in Macleod and Carrier’s edited volume. Chambers’ book would count as a single source, each author in the edited volume however counts as a separate bibliographic entry on your works cited list.

A good way to begin thinking about your paper is to first choose a place you think you would like to visit on a holiday and then begin to gather information about that place. Some historical background will help you situate tourism as one of the factors in the country’s economy. What is unique about the place culturally speaking? Look carefully at any advertisements, websites, and television commercials that feature the country you have chosen. Then ask yourself: What is being promoted? What is featured in illustrations or photographs? Who benefits (if the holiday is all inclusive, do local people have access to any of the benefits)? Why did you choose this particular place to visit? What do these choices say about how we think of the world beyond our destination, and how we think about ourselves?

Email me if you have any questions or if you are unsure about what to include in your paper. I will add a discussion to our Forums for general questions about Papers.

The parts of each texts from the readings
Week 1 – Introduction
May 4-8
Erve Chambers, Native Tours
Introduction: Shedding Light on Travel Experience, pp. 1-6.
Edward Bruner & Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. 1994. Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist
Realism in East Africa. Cultural Anthropology 9(4):435-470.
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Week 2 – Travel and Tourism
May 9-15
Erve Chambers, Native Tours: Chapter 1: From Travel to Tourism, pp. 7-30.
Erve Chambers, Native Tours: Chapter 2: “Tourism, Society and the Political Economy,”
pp. 31-68.

Week 3 – Theoretical Approaches
May 16-22
Film: Cannibal Tours
Satsuka, Shiho, Nature in Translation: Prologue, pp. 1-7.
Satsuka, Shiho, Nature in Translation: Introduction, pp. 9-38.

Week 4 – Local People, Nature, and Ecotourism
May 23 – May 29 Erve Chambers, Native Tours: Chapter 3: “Nature, Tourism, and the
Environment,” pp. 69-94.
Rosaleen Duffy. 2014. Interactive Elephants: Nature, Tourism and Neoliberalism. Annals
of Tourism Research 44:88-101.
Break week May 30 – June 5

Week 5 – Tourism, Culture, and Power
June 6 – June 12
Erve Chambers, Native Tours: Chapter 4: “Tourism and Culture,” pp. 95-120.
Donald V.L. Macleod & James G. Carrier, eds.
Tourism, Power and Culture: Introduction,
“Tourism, Power and Culture: Insights from Anthropology,” pp. 3-19.
Donald V.L. Macleod. Introduction to Part 1, “Tourism and the Power Struggle for
Resources,” pp. 21-25.
Veronica Strang, “Water Sports: A Tug of War over the River,” pp. 27-46.

Week 6 – Tourism and the Power Struggle for Resources
June 13 – 19
Donald V.L. Macleod & James G. Carrier, eds. Tourism, Power and Culture
Charlotte Joy, “Heritage and Tourism: Contested Discourses in Djenne,” pp. 47-63.
Rupert Stasch. The Camera and the House: The Semiotics of New Guinea “Tree Houses” in
Global Visual Culture. Comparative Studies in Society and History 53(1):75-112.

Week 7 – Tourism and the Power Struggle for Resources, Continued
June 20 – 26
Donald V.L. Macleod & James G. Carrier, eds. Tourism, Power and Culture:
Donald V.L. Macleod, “Power, Culture and the Production of Heritage,” pp. 64-89.
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Michael Hitchcock & I Nyoman Darma Putra, “Cultural Perspectives on Tourism and
Terrorism,” pp. 90-106.
Tianyu Ying, Kaiyun Wang, Xinyi Liu, Jun Wen & Edmund Goh (2020)
“Rethinking game consumption in tourism: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus
pneumonia outbreak in China,” Tourism Recreation Research, pp. 1-7.

Week 8 – Tourism and Culture
June 27 – July 3
Film: Reel Injun
Donald V.L. Macleod &James G. Carrier, eds. Tourism, Power and Culture:
James G. Carrier, Introduction to Part 2: “Tourism and Culture: Presentation, Promotion
and Manipulation of Image,” pp. 107-114.

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, “Tourists and Indigenous Culture as Resources:
Lessons from Embera Cultural Tourism in Panama,” pp. 115-133.

Elana Calvo-Gonzalez & Luciana Duccini, “On ‘Black Culture’ and ‘Black Bodies’: State
Discourses, Tourism and Public Policies in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,” pp. 134-152.