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Accepted Paper:

Hosts, guests and tourist arts on a sacred journey: contributions of Valene Smith and Nelson Graburn to the anthropology of tourism  
Margaret Swain (University of California, Davis)

Paper short abstract:

In the 1970s Valene Smith and Nelson Graburn collaboratively conjured up an anthropology of tourism, inspiring inquiry to this day. Combining shared interests with distinct empirical and theoretical models of relations and motives in tourism, they challenge all tourism researchers to a cosmopolitan balance of rights and multiculturalism.

Paper long abstract:

Arguably the1970's California Dreamin' Mamma & Papa of the Anthropology of Tourism, Valene Smith and Nelson Graburn collaboratively conjured up an anthropology of tourism with colleagues and students. Their imaginations have inspired generations of inquiry to the present day. Combining shared interests in travel as tourists and ethnographers, and in the Inuit, with distinct empirical and theoretical models of relations and motives in tourism, they challenge all tourism researchers to a cosmopolitan balance of rights and multiculturalism. My paper considers how Smith's Hosts and Guests, with Graburn's chapter on Tourism: The Sacred Journey, along with his book Ethnic and Tourist Arts set the bar early-on for decades to follow. We can see them both actively creating understandings of tourism within anthropology that embrace commonality and difference- asking why and how in their divergent bodies of work over time. Many thousands of academics have traveled with Valene and Nelson, engaging their synergy of Valene's hosts and guests with Nelson's aesthetics and ritual, unpacking the "Tourist" in tourism scholars, and the belief that tourism is a fundamental subject for critical anthropological inquiry.

Panel P19
Anthropology and tourism
  Session 1