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book reviews ts tourist studies sage publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi vol 1(2) 197–205 [1468-7976 (20 0111)1:2; 197–205; 019242] An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology by Peter M. Burns. London: Routledge, 1999. 187 pp. ISBN 0-415-18627-7. During the last decade there has been a proliferation of books which have present- ed a social science based perspective to the study of tourism; examples include Chris Ryan’s Recreational Tourism: A Social Science Perspective (1991), Richard Sharpley’s Tourism, Tourists and Society (1994) and Jeremy Boissevain’s edited volume Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism (1996). However, few such texts have proffered a detailed anthropological insight into tourism, and so as we enter the 21st century it is timely to note Peter Burns’s latest contribution to a subject area which was so well advanced by Valene Smith in her edited publication Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (1989). Burns’s book is ambitious in its scope, with the focus ranging across the history and development of anthropology and anthropological study, before proceeding to profile the phenomenon that is tourism and analyse two key elements within the tourism system, namely the tourists and host/guest cultures.The text then proceeds to address the anthropological dynamics
Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE
Published: Nov 1, 2001
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