Fall 2004: Ant 295-02 SpTp: Anthropology of Tourism

 

Classroom: 105 Goodnow Hall: Meeting Times: Tues. and Thurs. 2-4:15

Instructor: Kimberly M. Jones, Ph.D.

Office: 302 GOODNOW

E-mail: JONESKIM@grinnell.edu

Office phone: (641) 269-4325

                            

Office Hours: M/W 9-11, and T/TH 12-2 (302 Goodnow Hall):

During office hours, you are welcome to stop by without an appointment.  During non-office hours, you are also welcome to stop by, but I may be occupied and unable to meet.  I will be happy, however, to schedule appointments during non-office hours.  If you are having problems with course materials for any reason, I strongly encourage you to come see me. If you need to get in touch with me and are unable to do so by phone (or prefer not to), you can e-mail me.  I check my e-mail regularly.

 

Anthropology of Tourism Syllabus:

 

THIS SYLLABUS IS YOUR MANUAL FOR THE COURSE. It contains a great amount of information necessary for successful completion of this course. You are responsible for knowing all the information in the syllabus. Read it carefully several times, refer to it when preparing assignments, and keep track of the stated deadlines regularly.

 

Accommodations for students with disabilities:

 

Any student eligible for and needing academic adjustments or accommodations because of a documented disability is requested to speak with the professor no later than ?.  You will need to provide documentation of your disability to the Associate Dean and Director of Academic Advising, Joyce Stern, located in the lower level of the Forum (x3702).

 

Catalogue Description of Course:

 

In this course, we will explore tourism and its role in acculturation, modernization, and economic development. Topics will include, but are not limited to: tourism and cultural change, tourism and sustainable development, globalization and tourism, tourism and cultural revitalization, AIDS and sex tourism, gender and tourism, tourism and terrorism, the commodification of culture, tourism and ethnic identity, and the socioeconomic roles of the hosts, guests and mediators of tourism.

 

Purpose of this Course:

 

With the progress of globalization today, tourism has become a socioeconomic impetus for cultural change of enormous importance. This course will focus on the relationship between tourism and cultural production. We will emphasize how in attracting tourist economies, cultures are represented, rejuvenated, re-produced, and re-written to suit the tastes of both hosts and guests. Cultures are redefined and made public while meeting tourist needs and expectations through performances of local culture. Traditional culture and the natural environment are being alternately preserved through revitalization movements and progressively fragmented as modern socioeconomic relationships are introduced and “nature” is reconstructed. Students will develop the ability to critically analyze the effects of tourism in a variety of cultures.

 

Course Objectives:

 

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Critically analyze the impact of tourism economically, ecologically, and culturally.
  • Explain how the process of modern-day globalization has increased the social and economic importance of tourism in both developed and developing nations.
  • Appreciate how the study of tourism is a relatively new anthropological focus, stemming from the need to create more dynamic and historic approaches in order to understand modern societies.
  • Describe the relationship between tourism and cultural production.
  • Understand the role of governments and the media in promoting tourism.
  • Scrutinize how destination communities are marketed and how they choose to represent themselves
  • Study what the different parties get out of tourism encounters, and what these encounters mean to the tourists and the people visited.
  • Dissect how locals react to the commodification of their culture, their lifeways and their landscape.
  • Examine what the rituals and events staged for outsiders mean to visitors and to locals who enact and/or watch them.
  • Explore how locals cope with the expectations and demands of tourists, government regulations, and international and national commercial managers of tourism.

 

Required Texts (Available at the Bookstore or On Reserve in 304 Goodnow):

 

1)      Coleman, S. and M. Crang, eds. (2002). Tourism: Between Place and Performance. New York: Berghahn Books.

2)    Gmelch, G. (2003). Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

3)    Gmelch, S. (2004). Tourists and Tourism: A Reader. Illinois: Waveland Press.

4)    Pattullo, P. (1996). Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean. New York: Monthly Review Press.

5)       Yamashita, S. and J.S. Eades. (2003). Bali and Beyond: Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism. New York: Berghahn Books.

6)      Reserved Reading (RR): Selections from Apostolopoulos, Y. and D.J. Gayle. (2002). Island Tourism and Sustainable Development: Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean Experiences. New York: Praeger Publishers.

 

Determination of Final Grade:

 

Exam I: Open Book Essays                                150 points                                 15% of grade   

Exam II: Open Book Essays                              150 points                                 15% of grade

Final Exam: Paper on Tourism Topic                  200 points                                 20% of grade

Thought Paper I:                                               50 points                                   5% of grade

Thought Paper II:                                              50 points                                   5% of grade

Discussion Leader/ Attendance/ Participation      100 points                                 10% of grade

Web Research Report                                       100 points                                 10% of grade

Local Tourism PowerPoint Presentation             200 points                                 20% of grade

TOTALS:                                                                               1000 points                                            100%

 

 

Exams: Two Open-book, In-class Essays and Final Paper (50% of overall grade):

Exams I and II will be open-book exams given in class on 9/28 and 11/11. Each student will choose five out of eight possible essay questions to answer. Exam I (150 points) will cover 8/26-9/23 readings, lectures, presentations, and discussions. Exam II (150 points) will cover 10/5-11/9 materials. The final exam (200 points) is a 8-10 page research paper on “the impact and implications of tourism” or on “interactions between host and guests”. A focused and clearly outlined topic and annotated bibliography including at 3 articles/ book chapters in addition to the course materials is due on 11/16, and the paper will be due the first day of the week of exams (12/14). There will be no make-ups given for these exams.

 

Thought Papers (10% of overall grade):

At the beginning of the course you will be asked to respond to several questions regarding your understandings, experiences and interests in tourism in essay form (3-4 pages). Later in the semester, you will be asked to look over what you wrote for the first assignment, and write a new thought paper (3-4 pages) addressing how your understandings and interests have been changed and/or affected by the materials we have covered up to that point in the course. Papers are Due 9/7 and 12/7. The corrected draft of the first paper must be resubmitted with the second paper.

 

Discussion Leader (up to 75 points)/ Participation (up to 75 points)/ Attendance (10 point reduction for absence, 5 point reduction for lateness): 15% of overall grade:

You are expected to prepare for (by reading and taking notes on the readings), attend and participate in all class meetings. In addition to taking notes on the readings, you should prepare for each class five questions designed to provoke discussion of the readings for that class. At one of the classes you are to lead a discussion of one of the chapters to be covered that week. As part of leading the discussion, you should prepare a two-page hand-out for the class (this needs to be submitted to me by the class one week before the class during which you will present) For example, if you were to be a discussion leader the first class available, 9/14, you would need to get the handout to me by 9/7. Handouts should include an outline of at least 5 main points of the chapter as well as your five questions for that week based on all the readings for that week.

 

Internet Research Paper on Tourism in the Global South (10% of overall grade):

To further investigate the promotion of tourism through media, students must analyze websites promoting tourism in a developing city, nation, or region. Each student must find at least five websites targeting US tourists for their city, region or nation. Based on the information found on these sites, you should write a critical analysis of websites advertising tourism. This analysis should include information on the kinds of activities tourists to this area are encouraged to undertake, who the websites are targeting, and how culture is represented, explained, and marketed. The area chosen and a list of the five sites are due on 9/14. The final report should be 5-7 pages plus bibliography, double-spaced and is due on 9/28.

 

Local Fieldwork: Research PowerPoint Presentation: (20% of overall grade):

One day during class time we will take a group field trip to places of local tourism. You may choose one of the sites we visit or find another location/ business/ community organization/ to study. You may work on the project independently or as part of a team of up to four students. However, each student must do a 10 minute (8 slide) PowerPoint presentation on their own set of findings. Presentations must include 4 slides that incorporate excerpts from transcriptions of interviews, and/or tables/graphs of quantitative data. Research proposals are due on 10/12. A progress report (1-2 pages) saying where you are in the project (where you have visited, who you have talked to, and what in particular you’ve decided to observe or measure) is due 11/2. You must submit the PowerPoint file to me by 11/30, and presentations are to be done on 12/7 & 12/9.

 

Schedule of Readings and Assignments:

 

                       

Class Dates

Topic(s)

Readings Due

Assignments Due

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 8/26

Introduction to the Class: Anthropology and Tourism

Coleman and Crang,  pp.1-20

Yamashita, pp. 1-22

 

Tuesday, 8/31

Tourism and the Tourist Experience

 

P. Gmelch: Part I: Chaps. 1-3, pp. 3-54

 

Thursday, 9/2

Tourism, Society and Politics

P. Gmelch: Part I: Chaps. 4-6, pp. 55-110

 

Tuesday, 9/7

Marketing Culture and Identity

P. Gmelch, Part II: Chaps. 8-10, pp. 127-182

 

Thought paper on understandings, experiences and interests in Tourism

Thursday, 9/9

Case Study in Marketing Culture: The (Re)creation of Bali as the “Last Paradise”

Yamashita, Part II: Tourism in Bali, pp. 23-110

 

Tuesday, 9/14

Culture Via the Lens of Guidebooks

Coleman and Crang, pp. 108-142

Tourism on the Web Proposals Due: Must give region/ area and five websites.

Thursday, 9/16

Case Study: Let’s Go Europe?

P. Gmelch, Chap 25 & 26, pp. 419-443

 

Tuesday, 9/21

Performances of Culture

 

Coleman and Crang, pp. 75-107, and 143-175, Yamashita, 113-137

 

Thursday, 9/23

Case Study: Japan

Yamashita, Chap. 11, pp. 138-147, Coleman and Crang, pp. 160-175,

P. Gmelch, chap. 7, pp.111-126

 

Tuesday, 9/28

Exam I

 

Tourism on the Web Papers Due

Thursday, 9/30

Tourism in Grinnell Walking Fieldtrip 

 

 

Tuesday, 10/5

Nature Tourism

Coleman and Crang, pp. 21-74

 

Thursday, 10/7
Tourism and the Environment

P. Gmelch, Chap 24, pp.407-418,

RR: Chap. 2 in Apostopolous and Gayle, “Problems for Managing Sustainable Tourism in Small Islands”

 

Tuesday, 10/12

Island Tourism and Sustainable Development

RR: Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chaps. 3, “The Development of a Sustainable Tourism Sector in the Caribbean”, & 8, “Island Tourism Development and Carrying Capacity”

Proposals for local fieldwork project due

Thursday, 10/14

Island Tourism and Cultural Impact

RR:Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chaps. 9 Cultural Tourism in Small Island States: Contradictions and Ambiguities” & 12, “Women as Producers and Consumers of Island Tourism”

 

Tuesday, 10/19

FALL BREAK (no class)

 

 

Thurs., 10/21

FALL BREAK (no class)

 

 

Tuesday 10/26

Regional Study on Caribbean Tourism: Caribbean Tourism as an Economic Last Resort

Polly Pattulo, Chaps. 1-5, pp. 2-103)

 

Thursday 10/28

Regional Study on Caribbean Tourism:

The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean

Polly Pattulo, Chaps. 6-9, pp. 104-211)

 

Tuesday, 11/2

Regional Study on Caribbean Tourism: Work and Encounters in Tourism

G. Gmelch, Chaps. 1-3, pp. 1-53

Report on progress on local fieldwork project due 

Thursday, 11/4

Regional Study on Caribbean Tourism: Oral Histories from Barbados

G. Gmelch, Chaps. 4 & 5, pp. 54-142

 

Tuesday, 11/9

Regional Study on Caribbean Tourism: The Attractions and Government

G. Gmelch, Chaps. 6-8, pp. 143-200

 

Thurs., 11/11
Exam II

 

 

Tuesday, 11/16

Bringing It All Back Home

Coleman and Crang, 193-218

Final Paper Topic with Annotated Bibliography Due

Thursday, 11/18

Assignment: Prepare PowerPoint Research Presentations (no class)

 

 

Tuesday, 11/23

When Tourists and Locals Meet

P. Gmelch, Part 3, Chaps. 13, 16 &17, pp. 219-238 & 267-302

PowerPoint on Fieldwork on Tourism in Grinnell Due

Thurs., 11/25

Thanksgiving BREAK (no class)

 

 

Tuesday, 11/30

Sex Tourism, Romance Tourism

P. Gmelch, Part 3, Chaps. 18-19, pp. 303-338

 

Thursday, 12/2

The Impact and Implications of Tourism

P. Gmelch, Part 4, Chaps. 20, 23, & 27, pp.  339-358, pp. 389-406 & pp. 443-456

Rethinking Tourism: Review of Thought Paper Due

Tuesday, 12/7

Tourism in Grinnell: PowerPoint Presentations

 

 

Thursday, 12/9

Tourism in Grinnell: PowerPoint Presentations

 

 

Thursday 12/16
Final Exam

 
2PM: Final Exam Paper Due: Please submit with a self-addressed envelope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion Group Leader Choices of Chapters/Articles:

 

Class Dates

Potential Presentations

 

 

Tuesday, 9/14

Coleman and Crang, pp. 108-127

Coleman and Crang, pp. 128-142

Thursday, 9/16

P. Gmelch, Chaps. 25, 419-432

P. Gmelch, Chap. 26, 433-442

Tuesday, 9/21

Coleman and Crang, pp. 75-91,

Coleman and Crang, pp. 92-107 

Coleman and Crang, pp. 143-175

Yamashita, 113-127

Yamashita, 128-137

Thursday, 9/23

Yamashita, Chap. 11, pp. 138-147

Coleman and Crang, pp. 160-175 

P. Gmelch, chap. 7, pp.111-126

Tuesday, 10/5

Coleman and Crang, pp. 21-37,

Coleman and Crang, pp.37-53,

Coleman and Crang, pp.54-74

Thursday, 10/7

P. Gmelch, Chap 24, pp.407-418

RR: Apostopolous and Gayle, Chap. 2

Tuesday, 10/12

RR:Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chap. 3

RR:Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chap. 8

Thursday, 10/14

RR:Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chap. 9

RR:Apostolopoulous and Gayle, Chap. 12

Tuesday 10/26

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 1, pp. 2-27

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 2, pp. 28-51

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 3, pp. 52-79

Polly PattuloChap. 4, pp. 80-103

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 5, pp. 104-135

Thursday 10/28

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 6, pp. 104-135

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 7, pp. 136-155

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 8, pp. 156-177

Polly Pattulo, Chap. 9, pp. 178-201

Tuesday, 11/2

G. Gmelch, Chap. 1, pp. 1-24

G. Gmelch, Chaps. 2 & 3, pp. 25-53

Thursday, 11/4

G. Gmelch, Chap. 4, pp. 54-115

G. Gmelch, Chap. 5, pp. 116-142

Tuesday, 11/9

G. Gmelch, Chap. 6, pp. 143-178

G. Gmelch, Chaps. 7 & 8, pp. 179-200

Tuesday, 11/16

Coleman and Crang, pp. 193-218

Tuesday, 11/23

P. Gmelch, Chap. 13, pp. 219-238

P. Gmelch, Chap. 16, pp. 267-288

P. Gmelch, Chap. 17, pp. 289-302

Tuesday, 11/30

P. Gmelch, Chap. 18, pp. 303-316

P. Gmelch, Chap. 19, pp. 317-338

RR: L. Law, pages to be selected

Thursday, 12/2

P. Gmelch, Chap. 20, pp. 339-358

P. Gmelch, Chap. 23, pp. 389-406