MIRA Project 2005 Courses

Anth 456 Theory and Practices of Tourism & Ethnography (Anthropology of Tourism)
This course reviews key topics and debates in the Anthropology of tourism. Specifically the course focuses on the articulation of the body, visibility and space in tourism processes and dynamics. Lectures and seminars explore and elaborate the concept of double articulation as methodological paradigm in the study of tourism. Principle themes include performativity, visual structures, and the semiotics of vision. This course provides the groundwork in the field of study of tourism for the students to develop their projects within the MIRA program. Course evaluation is based on preparation and presentation for seminar and success in applying principles and ideas in the design and conduct of research.

Readings
Course Packet of Copied Articles
Erve Chambers, preface and chapter 1 of his book, Tourism and Culture
Malcom Crick, "Representations of International Tourism in Social Sciences" Annual Review of Anthro
Rojek and Urry, "Introduction" In Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures. Routledge, 1997.
Eeva Jokinen and Soile Veijola, "The Disoriented Tourist" pp. 24-51. In Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures. Routledge, 1997.
Malcolm Crick, Anthropologist and Tourist: Identity in Question, ch 14 in International Tourism.
Ed Bruner, "The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia", ch. 13 in International Tourism. M-F Lanfant, J. B. Allcock, and E. Bruner, eds., Sage, 1995, 224-241.
Deleuze and Guattari, from A Thousand Plateaus, chapter 3 and 15.
· Chap. 3 "10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals" focus on pp. 39-45- try through Pp. 39-74.
· Chap. 15. "Conclusion" pp. 501-514.

Provided in Electronic Format
Castañeda and Wallace, Workbook for the NAPA Tourism Workshop
Georg Simmel, "The Adventurer" and "The Stranger"
Castañeda, "Simmel and Similar Adventures"
Dennison Nash, Brief Commentary on ATR essay on "Travelers, Tourists, and Anthropologists,"

Michel DeCerteau, from The Practice of Everyday Life. "Walking in the City", "Spatial Practices," "Introduction/Making Do" - texts not in course packet; copies are made available in Pisté.

Assignments and Evaluation
Course evaluation is based on preparation and participation in seminars and ethnographic assignments. These assignments are fieldwork based tasks such as collecting tourism literatures in Mérida and Playa, participant observation in and of designated locations and activities, writing fieldnotes and taking visual documentation. Assignments are presented and discussed during the seminar.