Being a Tourist

David Howes, editor of Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities:
Being a Tourist will undoubtedly come to figure as a benchmark study in the anthropology of tourism -- a book to which all subsequent studies will want to refer. Finally, a study of tourism from the tourists' point of view!

Edward M. Bruner, University of Illinois, co-editor of The Anthropology of Experience:
The stories told by these travel enthusiasts about their experiences provide one of the richest sources of data on tourism that I have ever read, so multi-layered and complex that it shatters many easy generalizations. At last we have tourist voices, insightfully analyzed and placed in context. A theoretically sophisticated discourse on travel, yet so clearly presented that reading Being a Tourist is a sheer delight.