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Anthropology of Tourism: Objectives and Learning Outcomes of The Course

This course aims to place the anthropological study of tourism in its broader anthropological context by exploring the historical roots of modern tourism and examining how it relates to social theories. It emphasizes using good ethnographic research to understand the global political economy of tourism and consider the policy implications. The objectives are for students to understand the field of anthropology of tourism, navigate its various parts, design an ethnographic research project involving tourism, collaborate with other disciplines studying tourism, analyze tourism policy documents, and apply lessons to engaging with the tourism industry. Students will be assessed through a written exam worth 60% and one coursework assignment worth 40% of the final grade.

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Anthropology of Tourism: Objectives and Learning Outcomes of The Course

This course aims to place the anthropological study of tourism in its broader anthropological context by exploring the historical roots of modern tourism and examining how it relates to social theories. It emphasizes using good ethnographic research to understand the global political economy of tourism and consider the policy implications. The objectives are for students to understand the field of anthropology of tourism, navigate its various parts, design an ethnographic research project involving tourism, collaborate with other disciplines studying tourism, analyze tourism policy documents, and apply lessons to engaging with the tourism industry. Students will be assessed through a written exam worth 60% and one coursework assignment worth 40% of the final grade.

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Anthropology of Tourism

Course Code: 15PANH049 Unit value: 0.5 Year of study: Year 1 The course aims to (a) place the anthropological study of tourism within in a general anthropological context (b) explore the historical roots of contemporary tourism (c) identify some of the classical issues in social theory that have influenced the development of the subject and assess what contribution tourism studies have made to these (d) establish the primacy in the anthropology of tourism of good ethnography (e) ground the course in awareness of the global political economy of tourism(f) appreciate the policy implications of the subject (g) develop students semiological skills and (f) critically evaluate the subjects future directions Objectives and learning outcomes of the course At the end of the course, a student should be able to demonstrate:

An ability to understand the scope of the field of the anthropology of tourism; An ability confidently to navigate through the various parts of the subject in order to come to a clear idea about its future intellectual development; An ability either to compose a field research project with tourism as a dominant theme or to understand where tourism might fit into any other ethnographic field research; An ability to co-operate with colleagues from other disciplines (such as cultural geography, history, development studies) with an interest in tourism; An ability to comprehend and critically analyse policy documents in the tourism field; An ability to apply lessons learnt during this course to engagement within the tourism industry.

Method of assessment The written exam will count for 60%.1 pieces of coursework will count for 40% towards the final mark. First Friday of the term following that in which the bulk of teaching has taken place Suggested reading

Bouquet, M. and M. Winter, 1987, Who From Their Labours Rest? Conflict and practice in rural tourism, Aldershot, Avebury. Bruner, EM. 2005, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of travel, Chicago, University Press.

Burns, P. 1999, An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology, London, Routledge. Cohen, E. 1979a. Rethinking the Sociology of Tourism. ATR 6(1):18-35. Cohen, E. 1979b. A phenomenology of tourist experiences. Sociology 13:179-201. Cohen, E. 1973. Nomads from Affluence: Notes on the Phenomenon of Drifter Tourism. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 14(12):89-103. Cohen, E. 1972. Towards Sociology of International Tourism. Social Research 39:164-82.

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