| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages). |
| Series |
Rutgers series in childhood studies |
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Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. |
| Contents |
Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? -- The minds and hearts of children -- Conceptions of value -- Earning, spending, saving -- Something extra -- Money, gender, and the (im)morality of exchange -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Child labor -- India -- Vārānasi.
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Tourism -- India -- Vārānasi.
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Tourists -- India -- Vārānasi.
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Social interaction -- India -- Vārānasi.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huberman, Jennifer. Ambivalent encounters. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813554075 (DLC) 2012005167 (OCoLC)777364335 |
| ISBN |
9780813554082 (electronic bk.) |
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081355408X (electronic bk.) |
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9781461934912 (electronic bk.) |
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1461934915 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813554075 |
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0813554071 |
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9780813554068 |
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0813554063 |
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