Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands 9780824855635

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One. Ethnographic Context
Chapter Two. Modernity and Primitivity
Chapter Three. Fixing the Tourist Gaze
Chapter Four. Spectacular Culture
Chapter Five. Producing and Consuming Experience
Chapter Six. Producing and Consuming Things
Chapter Seven. Tourist Photography
Chapter Eight. Cashing In on Culture
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

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