Authenticity in tourism and native title: Place, time and spatial politics in the east Kimberley

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 381-405

  Lane, Ruth ^a   Waitt, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Indigenous; Kimberley; Native Title; Spatial politics; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006015326     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360120092607     Document Type: Article

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