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Author Guerrón-Montero, Carla María, 1970- author.

Title From temporary migrants to permanent attractions : tourism, cultural heritage, and Afro-Antillean identities in Panama / Carla Guerrón Montero
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

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Contents Panameñismo and Panameñidad : converging ideologies in the construction of Panamanian national identity -- Panama's temporary migrants : the Afro-Antillean presence in the national narrative -- "Panama is more than a canal" : the twenty-first century and the Panamanian tourism industry -- Touring the archipelago of Bocas del Toro -- Afro-Antilleanness represented : museums, theme parks, and the manufacturing of history -- The permanent attractions: music and cuisine as malleable "ethnic commodities" -- Conclusions: Afro-Antillean identity construction, international tourism, and the new symbols of Panameñidad
Summary "A new reading of Panama's nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Black people -- Race identity -- Panama
Antilleans -- Race identity -- Panama
Black people -- Panama -- Social conditions
Antilleans -- Panama -- Social conditions
Foreign workers, Antillean -- Panama
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Panama
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Panama -- Bocas del Toro (Province)
National characteristics, Panamanian.
Transnationalism.
Black people -- Race identity
Black people -- Social conditions
Foreign workers, Antillean
National characteristics, Panamanian
Race relations
Social conditions
Tourism -- Social aspects
Transnationalism
SUBJECT Panama -- Race relations
Bocas del Toro (Panama : Province) -- Social conditions
Subject Panama
Panama -- Bocas del Toro (Province)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817392970
0817392971