The modern does not cater for natives: Travel ethnography and the conventions of form

Tourist Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 119-142

  Alneng, Victor ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthropology of tourism; exoticism; modernity; nativism; non Western tourism; tourism theory; travel ethnography; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997943786     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146879702761936626     Document Type: Article

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