Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India.
Title:
Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India.
Author:
Huberman, Jenny.
ISBN:
9780813554082
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Series:
Series in Childhood Studies
Contents:
Title Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Part I. Introductions -- Chapter 1. Children, Tourists, and Locals -- Chapter 2. A Tourist Town -- Part II. Conceptions of Children -- Chapter 3. Girls and Boys on the Ghats -- Chapter 4. Innocent Children of Little Adults? -- Chapter 5. The Minds and Hearts of Children -- Part III. Conceptions of Value -- Chapter 6. Earning, Spending, Saving -- Chapter 7. Something Extra -- Chapter 8. Money, Gender, and the (Im)morality of Exchange -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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