Tourism and nativistic ideology in Cuzco, Peru

Berghe, Pierre L. van den; Ochoa, Jorge Flores

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(99)00043-2

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“…Then it confronts and thereby strengthens the idea of a particular Sá miness. There is probably today a tendency towards what has been called indigenism, indigenous ethnicity as an ideology (Van den Berghe & Ochoa, 2000). Related to Somers' terminology; whereas the idea of ethnicity is a metanarrative, it is ideologically inspired narratives about a particular ethnicity that transforms ethnicity to a political instrument and an identity marker.…”

Section: The Indifference and Vigilance Towards Tourismmentioning

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Tourism and Sámi Identity – An Analysis of the Tourism‐Identity Nexus in a Sámi Community

Viken¹

2006

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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This article is a study of the tourism-identity nexus in a Sámi community called Karasjohka, often regarded as the Sámi capital in Norway. The aim is, based on focus group interviews, to look at the importance of tourism as a parameter for identity negotiations. The study indicates the existence of a strong Sámi ethos, but people have multiple roles and in many of these the Sáminess is of minor importance. The relation to tourists or to tourism as such seems to be handled through non-Sámi roles. The study unveiled three main reactions to tourism; the first one is to be irritated -by the way the tourism industry handles Sámi culture, and by the fact that the most profitable parts of the business is in the hands of non-Sámi; the second one is called reflexive rejection -tourism is maintained to be of minimal importance for cultural and identity issues; and the third one is called discursive awareness -people admitting that tourism is a significant institution and as such being part of the contexts that over time forms their views of themselves, their culture and of the outer world.

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Section: The Indifference and Vigilance Towards Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Sámi Identity – An Analysis of the Tourism‐Identity Nexus in a Sámi Community

Viken¹

2006

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…The idea that the past is constructed as heritage and used in the present for economic gain is not new for scholars of tourism in Cuzco, nor has it been categorically viewed as false consciousness. Silverman () argues that Cuzco has become a full‐time performance, a mega‐entity, of a romantic elite past designed to promote authentic experiences of the other (see Van den Berghe and Ochoa ). Silverman demonstrates how the archaeological past has been turned “into a vast tourist project” wherein “history is a vehicle for having a voice and mobilizing resources” (:883; ).…”

Section: Heritage As Cultural Resourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Heritage Prospecting and the Past as Future(s) in Peru

Hall

2019

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen En febrero de 2008 un paro de 48 horas estalló en la ciudad de Cuzco, Perú, sobre dos leyes que se habían aprobado desde la ciudad de Lima. Estas dos leyes dieron concesiones a organizaciones que prometieron a desarrollar el patrimonio de la nación. Los manifestantes entendieron que las leyes afectarían los restos arqueológicos. Este artículo examina el paro a través del concepto de “prospección de patrimonio” a demostrar que el patrimonio hoy es un recurso politizado y flexible que se forma constantemente, y que está siempre en desarrollo y expansión. En vez de entender el paro como una crítica del neoliberalismo, o política sobre entendimientos del espacio, o una afirmación de los derechos indígnenos, el paro es mejor entendido como una lucha por prospección a reclamar el patrimonio, uno de los recursos más importantes en el Perú. Esto sugiere que el valor del patrimonio es la posibilidad de su potencial, ni tradición o historia.

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“…At the end, none paid too much attention about these World Bank proposals neither continuity these proposals. 32…”

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Chewing gum town thematic park: Mayan social interactions at south state of quintana roo in Mexico

Janer¹,

Garavito²

2019

AHOAJ

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If you were traveling by car or bus on the road Chacchoben to Merida you will see to the right a sign with the name "Pueblo Chiclero", a Thematic Park mysteriously closed. The site was strategy planning in a convergence of two points making a touristic circuit: one, Majahual cruise dock, and the other one, Chacchoben archeological site. Both were recently inaugurated, and at the same time, infrastructure was improved with roads expansion and highquality pavement. So, tourist could arrive to Majahual and have also these two cultural touristic options to visit at south state. We were informed during fieldwork that Chewing Gum Town burned and for that reason it was closed to tourist and to everybody in general even people from Chacchoben. Also, they told us front door had a padlock. During our interviews to local population, people told us Chewing Gum Town was burned. But a version of one family was difference from the version of the others. This family members, told us, it was not burned and invited us to visit it. They told us, only one palapa ii burned but the rest of the theme park did not. At the end, we concluded people to hide corruption prefer to say it is burned. Based on Dan Sperber, iii which talk about what socially evoke an event, our objective is to identify what does it means and evoke to local people Park Thematic burned and what are the purpose to maintain socially Thematic Park burned while physically the rest remained intact? In our information analysis process became two theories: some people said was nature, other said was intentionally. Some of them explained i Chacchoben is a Mayan word that means a place where purple corn grows. ii A place where people could be gathered to make different activities such meeting, shopping, eat, dance, etc. It has a roof made of dried palms and wooden supports. Tourist business like this kind of architecture but is very vulnerable because fire and hurricanes end easily with this construction.

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Tourism and nativistic ideology in Cuzco, Peru

Cited by 64 publications

References 7 publications

Tourism and Sámi Identity – An Analysis of the Tourism‐Identity Nexus in a Sámi Community

Tourism and Sámi Identity – An Analysis of the Tourism‐Identity Nexus in a Sámi Community

Heritage Prospecting and the Past as Future(s) in Peru

Chewing gum town thematic park: Mayan social interactions at south state of quintana roo in Mexico

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