8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries 1
6. Part I. Imaginaries of Peoples
7. 1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to Papua’s “Treehouse People” 31
8. 2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization, and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism 57
9. 3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism 80
10. 4. Myth Management in Tourism’s Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond 103
11. 5. Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community 125
12. Part II. Imaginaries of Places
13. 6. The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina 147
14. 7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales 172
15. 8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times 194
16. 9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries 220
17. 10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands 242
18. Afterword. Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism 260
19. Notes on Contributors 279
20. Index 283