£131.84

Routledge Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition Book

Name: Routledge Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition Book
Brand: Routledge
Price: 131.87 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 80 days • 80 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 80 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £132 (66 days, 82.5%)

Price range: £132 - £141

Price levels: 2 different prices over 80 days

Description

Explore the complex connection between tourism, culture, and ethnic identity in Tibet through this academic study. Part of the Routledge Contemporary China Series, this book focuses on the Shangrila region in Southwest China. It examines how local Tibetan culture is reconstructed and sold as a marketable commodity for travelers. Readers will learn about the socio-economic effects of tourism in the Shangrila region. The text investigates the economic distribution of tourism benefits and explores the political implications of these changes. It also looks at how tourism influences the negotiation and reassertion of ethnic identity within the community. This work provides a detailed look at the spatial re-imagining caused by tourism development. It is an essential resource for those studying anthropology, sociology, and the changing landscape of ethnic identity in China.

Key Features

Investigates the relationship between tourism and ethnic identity in the Tibetan region of Shangrila.

Analyzes how Tibetan culture is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for the tourism industry.

Examines the socio-economic effects and determines who benefits economically from regional tourism.

Explores the political implications and the reassertion of ethnic identity through tourism.

Provides a study on the spatial re-imagining provoked by tourism development in Southwest China.

Part of the respected Routledge Contemporary China Series for academic research.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 041543436X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 September 2007
Listed Since: 26 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition Book

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

De Gruyter - Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet (Religion and Society)

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture)

China's Tibet Policy (Durham East Asia Series)

Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Routledge - The Selfless Ego: Tibetan Life Writing Book

Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Social Structuration in Tibetan Society: Education, Society, and Spirituality (Emerging Perspectives on Education in China)

Drawn and Written in Stone: An inventory of stepped structures and inscriptions on rock surfaces in Upper Tibet (ca. 100 BCE to 1400 CE): 2995 (British Archaeological Reports International Series)

Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

A Textbook in Classical Tibetan

Routledge Rule By Incarnation: Tibetan Buddhism History Book

Lhasa – Streets with Memories (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government: The Case of Tibet – Chinese and Comparative Perspectives (Law, Development and Globalization)

Greater Tibet: An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas

Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region

Inner Peace–Global Impact: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work (Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and Application)

Les Tibétains

Mobile Lifeworlds: An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas (Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism)

Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India: A Study of Monpa: 6 (International Perspectives in Geography, 6)

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

A Life in Tibetan Studies : Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

Brave Son of Tibet: The Many Lives of Robert B. Ekvall

Routledge Trans-Himalayan Buddhism - Academic Reference Book

Routledge Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism Book