Naturalizing the 'primitive': A critique of marketing Australia's indigenous peoples as 'hunter-gatherers';Se faisant naturaliser le primitif

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 142-163

  Waitt, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginality; Advertisements; Australia; Australian Tourist Commission; Cultural politics of domination; Myths; Semiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004649319     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616689908721306     Document Type: Article

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