| Description |
1 online resource (401 pages) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. March: “Congratulations, You�re Hired!�""; ""2. April: Workplace Training""; ""3. May: Cruise Ships Arrive""; ""4. June: Becoming a Native Tour Guide""; ""5. July: Meeting the Tourist Gaze""; ""6. August: Burn Out""; ""7. September: End of the Season""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About Alexis C. Bunten"" |
| Summary |
<![CDATA["With tremendous empathy, warm humor, and trained insight, Native scholar and ethnographer Alexis Bunten embedded herself for a summer season in her own [Alaska Native] people's cultural tourism industry. After working as a tourist guide, she produced this absolutely original, insider's journal on the difficult choices and behind-the-scenes debates over how to enlighten outsiders with limited attention spans while protecting the vulnerable, deep-seated beliefs and ritual practices and ever-evolving lifestyles of the local indigenous community. A case study of what small-scale, traditi |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism -- Alaska -- Sitka
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Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Sitka -- Industries
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Tour guides (Persons) -- Alaska -- Sitka
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Tour guides (Persons)
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Heritage tourism.
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Alaska -- Sitka.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803269774 |
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0803269773 |
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0803234627 |
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9780803234628 |
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