Ambivalent Encounters Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick
Rutgers University Press
2012
New Brunswick, N.J. : 2012. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Rutgers series in childhood studies
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423730106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
