Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India
Huberman, Jenny
Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20121201
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_625232 9780813554082
10.26530/oapen_625232 doi
Anthropology India Varanasi Western culture
Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20121201
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_625232 9780813554082
10.26530/oapen_625232 doi
Anthropology India Varanasi Western culture