Final Exam Study Guide

ANTH 390/Anthropology of Tourism

In spite of the fact that the syllabus says it will be I’ve decided that the Final Exam will NOT be cumulative and it will be worth 100 points rather than 150. It cover only the material since the Midterm Exam. I will adjust the grading scheme accordingly. It will be comprised of the usual co0mbo package of multiple-choice, true-false, short answer, and essay.

Tourism & sex

Readings:

• Denise Brennan: When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet (Gmelch chapter 9)

• Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont: Romance Tourism: Gender, Race, and Power in Jamaica (Gmelch chap 10)

• Hazel Tucker: Negotiating Gender Relations and Identity between Locals and Tourists in Turkey (Gmelch chap 17)

• Rose Omondi: Gender and the Political Economy of Sex Tourism in Kenya’s Coastal Resorts

• Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars: Robots, Men and Sex Tourism

Videos:

• Rent A Rasta.

Questions to ponder:

• Who benefits most from sex tourism in Sosua as portrayed by Brennan? Why?

• What motivates female tourists and local men in Goreme, Turkey? How does this change over time?

• What are some of the main differences between female sex tourism and male sex tourism identified by Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont?

•  What features does Rose Omondi say have facilitated the Kenyan coast to become a destination for sex tourism?  What possible solutions does she offer in the battle against sex tourism?

Pilgrimage/heritage tourism

Readings:

• Edward Bruner: Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora (Gmelch chap 19)

•  Paulla Ebron: Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics

• Jack Kugelmass: Rites of the Tribe: The Meaning of Poland for American Jewish Tourists (Gmelch chap 20).

Videos:

• Ghana - Coming Home.

• The Slave Kingdoms (approx.. first 25 minutes)

• The Holocaust Tourist

Questions to ponder:

• Why does Paulla Ebron compare the naming ritual experienced by herself and other African-American tourists to a rite of passage?
• How does the entire experience she describes in her article Tourists as Pilgrims represent what she calls the domestication of dreams?
• Think about the ways that the issues of representation, interpretation, and ownership are discussed in Bruner’s article Tourism in Ghana.
• How did Henry Louis Gates’ video The Slave Kingdoms relate to the issue of heritage tourism for African-Americans?

Thanatourism: “Dark” tourism.

Readings:

• Carolyn Strange & Michael Kempa: SHADES OF DARK TOURISM: Alcatraz and Robben Island

•  Philip Stone:  A dark tourism spectrum: towards a typology of death and macabre related tourist sites

• Britta Knudson: Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts

• Britta Timm Knudsen: The past as staged-real environment: communism revisited in The Crazy Guides Communism Tours, Krakow, Poland.

 Videos:

• The Holocaust Tourist

• Nelson Mandela and Robben Island

• Krakow - Our CrazyGuides Tour in a Comedy Trabant

• Disaster Tourism (Univ. of British Columbia students engaging in volunteer tourism in New Orleans) 

 Questions to ponder:

• What is “dark tourism” and what are some examples of it?

• What are some of the motivating factors behind “dark tourism?”

•   What are some of the contrasts Strange and Kempa draw between the sites of Alcatraz and Robben Island?

• Be familiar with Stone’s “spectrum” of “dark tourism”.

• What is the Crazy Guide Team trying to do in Nowa Huta?   

Medical tourism (1).

Economic conditions conducive to the rise of medical tourism.

Readings:

• Norra MacReady: Developing Countries Court Medical Tourists.

• Fred Hansen: A revolution in healthcare: Medicine meets the marketplace.

• Leigh Turner: ‘First World Health Care at Third World Prices’: Globalization, Bioethics & Medical Tourism.

•  John Connell: Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and…surgery.

Videos

• 60 Minutes Medical Tourism video

•  Medical Tourism is Booming in Mexico

Questions to ponder:

• How does medical tourism differ from earlier health tourism?

•  According to John Connell what is the rationale for medical tourism

  • on the part of tourists (who are they likely to be?)

    on the part of hosts (what do governments perceive the major benefits to be?)

Medical tourism (2) Impact of medical tourism on host countries.

Readings:

• Alexander Edmonds: "Almost Invisible Scars”: Medical Tourism to Brazil.

• Beth Kangas: Complicating Common Ideas about Medical Tourism: Gender, Class, and Globality in Yemenis’ Medical Travel.

• Andrew Mazzaschi: Surgeon and Safari: Producing Valuable Bodies in Johannesburg

• Amit Snegupta: Medical Tourism: Reverse Subsidy for the Elite.

Videos:

• India - Medical Tourism

 Questions to ponder:

• What are the social costs of medical tourism and who bears them?

Identity, authenticity, & representation: the role of tour guides.

Readings:

• Heidi Dahles, The Politics of Tour Guiding: Image Management in Indonesia.

• Noel Salazar, Tourism and Glocalization: ‘Local’ Tour Guiding

• Jonathon Howard, Rik Thwaites & Brenda Smith: Investigating the Roles of the Indigenous Tour Guide.

Videos:

• Petra the 'Stupid Tour Guide'

•   Rick Steves on CBS's "60 Minutes"

Questions to ponder:

• Think about the critical role that tour guides play in the tourist industry and then consider the two examples that Salazar and Dahles present from Indonesia.

• What does Salazar mean by the term “glocalization” and what roles do the tour guides at the Traveler’s Bar play in this process?

Summary/conclusion

Readings:

• Deborah McLaren: Rethinking Tourism (Gmelch chapter 25).

Videos:

• Trailblazing: The Women Of Nepal's Trekking Industry
  

 Questions to ponder: Just read the chapter!!!