This paper explores the long-term impact of a short-term study abroad program on alumni of the program years after having taken the course. Through using a mixed measure survey, the data reveals that short-term study abroad programs can have a significant and direct impact on the lives of alumni. The specific program considered has impacted alumni choices of international tourist destinations, activities alumni participate in while traveling abroad, as well as the choices alumni make concerning lodging while traveling abroad. In short, after participating in a short-term study abroad program, alumni have developed a global citizenship identity.

This chapter describes the changing terms upon which the Longuda people of northeast Nigeria engage their beliefs about witchcraft. Lutheran and other forms of Christianity have wide influence in the region, but despite missionaries’ dismissals, belief in witchcraft persists. Using the tools of theology, comparative religions, and anthropology, the author shows how Longuda Christians are adapting and synthesizing a traditional worldview and Christian doctrines to make sense of the forces they encounter. Vanden Berg shows that anthropological and theological assumptions about syncretism, non-negotiable worldviews, and truth claims need revising in the face of the Longuda people’s Christian embrace of a spiritually animated world.

This article is based on semistructured interviews conducted with Jamaicans from 2010 to 2013. The goal of conducting the interviews as well the objective of this article is to give voice to Jamaican perspectives on tourism. This article gives extensive space for Jamaican views of tourism to be heard through the use of direct quotations. Such "unfiltered" voices have been largely lacking in the anthropology of tourism literature and give a unique window into an understanding of host perspectives of tourism. Social exchange theory is then used to investigate host comments on tourism. The analysis of host perspectives on tourism points to possible directions tourism development on the island might take, as well as giving greater understanding of a sense of Jamaican cultural identity tied to tourism and also globalization. Jamaicans who work in the tourism sector see economic benefit as only one positive aspect of their jobs. The sociocultural benefits of participating in the tourism sector are clear: the joy of interacting with people of other cultures, the joy of learning about other cultures, and the joy of sharing Jamaican culture with tourists. Authentic interaction with tourists is a desire for those working in the tourism industry and is viewed by respondents as a way to participate in global intercultural interaction. Such findings speak to the long tradition of tourism on the island as to the cultural identification of tourism for Jamaicans. Finally, community tourism development is suggested as a direction for Jamaican tourism development in light of host comments on tourism.

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