| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) |
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Rutgers series in childhood studies |
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Rutgers series in childhood studies
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Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? -- The minds and hearts of children -- Conceptions of value -- Earning, spending, saving -- Something extra -- Money, gender, and the (im)morality of exchange -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index |
| Notes |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Child labor -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Social interaction -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Tourism -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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Tourists -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE.
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Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Child labor
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Social interaction
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Tourism
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Tourists
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Tourismus
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Kinderarbeit
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India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813554082 |
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081355408X |
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9781461934912 |
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1461934915 |
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