Ambivalent Encounters
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in the...
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| description | Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.
Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-397142022-05-02T10:17:28Z Ambivalent Encounters Huberman, Jenny Anthropology India Varanasi Western culture Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful. Ambivalent Encounters brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to ask why children emerge as objects of the international tourist gaze; what role they play in representing socio-economic change; how children are valued and devalued; why they elicit anxieties, fantasies, and debates; and what these tourist encounters teach us more generally about the nature of human interaction. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-02-25 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:49:59Z 2012-12-01 book 625232 OCN: 852896330 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31803 9780813554082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39714 eng Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31803/1/625232.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31803/1/625232.pdf Rutgers University Press 10.26530/oapen_625232 10.26530/oapen_625232 c7df73af-b7ad-4e0b-8e74-3c629f7e0222 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 9780813554082 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New Brunswick 100265 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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