Anthropology of Tourism

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This seminar provides a comprehensive examination of the history, scope, ethics, and methods of research associated with tourism, considered one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world. Approaching tourism as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon in which a variety of encounters and exchanges occur, and which impacts the culture, politics and economics of mobile and immobile people around the world, the course also provides training in qualitative research methods utilized in tourism and visitor studies, and is of interest to both those interested in furthering their academic knowledge of tourism as a site of holistic anthropological inquiry and/or those wishing to work in the tourism, museum, heritage or audience research fields (among others).