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Jane C. Desmond

Staging Tourism

Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World

361 pages, 50 halftones  6 x 9  © 1999

Cloth $37.50

ISBN: 9780226143750   Published December 1999

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226143767   Published December 2001

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
Subjects



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