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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism
Edited by Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
ISBN 978-0-85745-277-1 Hb $75.00/£42.00 Published (October 2011)
eISBN 978-0-85745-278-8
“[This volume offers] a fascinating series of studies of how expectation and anticipation shape tourist practices. Readers will find here rich and impressive studies that range across the globe pausing to cast new light on many classic scenarios and issues…This volume will be a major resource that offers a nuanced account of the complexities of expectations, disappointments and joys of tourism.” · Mike Crang, Durham University
“…an exciting volume, one that addresses a little understood aspect of tourism: the complex interaction between imagination and reality, and the way in which anticipation and expectation frames the experience of tourism… These issues are often discussed in passing in other works, but here they are brought into sharp relief.” · Adam Kaul, Augustana College
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other’s lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry.
Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006).
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. He is the author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn 2003), and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge 2006) and United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Berghahn Books 2009).
Series: Volume 34, New Directions in Anthropology
LC: G155.A1S5615 2011
BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural; SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/GeneralBIC: JHM Anthropology; KNSG Tourism industryContents
Chapter 1. Introduction:The Play of Expectation in Tourism
Jonathan Skinner & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Chapter 2. Success and Access to Knowledge in the Tourist-local Encounter: Confrontations with the Unexpected in a Turkish Community
Hazel Tucker
Chapter 3. Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the World of Expectations
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Chapter 4. The Paradox of Gaze and Resistance in Native American Cultural Tourism: An Alaskan Case Study
Alexis Celeste Bunten
Chapter 5. Forward into the past: 'Digging' the Balearic Islands
Jacqueline Waldren
Chapter 6. On Difference, Desire, and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: The White Masai in Kenyan Tourism
George Paul Meiu
Chapter 7. Displeasure on ‘Pleasure Island’: tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter 8. The Coach Fellas: Tourism performance and expectation in Ireland
Kelli Ann Malone
Chapter 9. Going on Holiday to Imagine War: The Western Front Battlefields as Sites of Commemoration and Contestation
Jennifer Iles
Chapter 10. Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect in Gunter Von Hagen’s Body Worlds Exhibitions
Jane Desmond
Chapter 11. Afterword: The Tour as Imagined, Lived, Experienced, and Told
Ed Bruner
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index