Projects of scale-making: New perspectives for the anthropology of tourism;Projectos de configuração de escala: Novas perspectivas para a antropologia do turismo

Etnografica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 315-342

  Neveling, Patrick ^a   Wergin, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; Globalisation; History; Political economy; Scale; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875158010     PISSN: 08736561     EISSN: 21822891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/etnografica.1125     Document Type: Article

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