Ambivalent encounters : childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India /

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Author / Creator:	Huberman, Jennifer.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012. ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 227 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Rutgers series in childhood studies Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Subject:	Child labor -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Social interaction -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Tourism -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Tourists -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) Child labor. Social interaction. Tourism. Tourists. India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200324

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ISBN:	9780813554082 081355408X 9781461934912 1461934915 9780813554075 0813554071 9780813554068 0813554063
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Huberman, Jennifer. Ambivalent encounters. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813554075

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