Staging tourism : bodies on display from Waikiki to Sea World

Jane C. Desmond

From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, this book 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. Gathering together written accounts, postcards, photographs, advertisements, films and oral histories, as well as her own interpretations of these displays, Desmond provides an account of US tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to the present. She then juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism" in the United States, which takes place at zoos, aquariums and animal theme parks. In each case, Desmond argues, the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the 19th century.

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From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, this book 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. Gathering together written accounts, postcards, photographs, advertisements, films and oral histories, as well as her own interpretations of these displays, Desmond provides an account of US tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to the present. She then juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism" in the United States, which takes place at zoos, aquariums and animal theme parks. In each case, Desmond argues, the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the 19th century.

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[目次]

  • List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Touring the Essential PART I: Staging "The Cultural" INTRODUCTION: Cultural Bodies: Hawaiian Tourism and Performance ONE: Let's Lu'au TWO: Picturing Hawai'i: The "Ideal" Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915 THREE: Pictures Come to Life: Rendering "Hawai'i" in Early Mainland Performances FOUR: Advertising, Racializing, and Performing Hawai'i on Site: The Emergence of Cultural Tourism in the 1920s FIVE: Tourism and the Commodification of Culture, 1930-1940 SIX: Surfers and "Beachboys": Euro-American Representations of Native Hawaiian Men and Interracial Romance CONCLUSION: Up to the Present: Profiling Visitors PART II: Staging "The Natural" INTRODUCTION: Looking at Animals: The Consumption of Radical Bodily Difference SEVEN: The Industries of Species Tourism EIGHT: In/Out-of/In-Fake-Situ: Three Case Studies NINE: Performing Nature: Shamu at Sea World CONCLUSION: Bodies and Tourism Notes References Cited Index

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書名 Staging tourism : bodies on display from Waikiki to Sea World
著作者等 Desmond, Jane
Desmond Jane C.
出版元 University of Chicago Press
刊行年月 1999
版表示 2
ページ数 xxv, 336 p., [40] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0226143759
9780226143767
NCID BA44796319
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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