tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post459704081082379139..comments2023-06-28T05:16:54.842-04:00Comments on anthropologies: Introduction: Tourism, anthropology, and the eternal search for a proper subject of studyRyan Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18008425994341539639noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-91915716437142165682011-07-07T16:17:52.199-04:002011-07-07T16:17:52.199-04:00In a series on my blog I posted, "Cultural St...In a series on my blog I posted, "Cultural Studies focus largely on the habits of popular culture, that is, the social meaning of mass-produced consumer and leisure goods.Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender. Being extremely holistic, it combines feminist theory, social and political theory, history, philosophy, literary theory, media theory, film/video, communication, and translation studies, museum studies and art, history and criticism. All in an effort to study cultural phenomena in various societies, and therefore make capitalistic decisions based on that data."<br /><br />I had a friend that rented housing to Asian students who came here to San Diego so they could internship at SDSU for their Tourism major. Since America is the capitalism capital of the world, they come here to get tips and to see just how the wealthy get it done.<br /><br />Since anthro is all about who and what people are, cultural studies fit right in. I don't do it, but some do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-43245827241694677112011-05-05T10:16:31.566-04:002011-05-05T10:16:31.566-04:00It is clear that tourism is a kind of "produc...It is clear that tourism is a kind of "product", but is a product that guides social practices (for example, take pictures: all skull rock's pictures are, in certain way, the same picture). Sometimes I wonder, from my own experience, how many pics of Buenos Aires obelisk are taken in one day. Bourdieu wrote about sociological relevance of pictures: the camera lens is guided by the rules of social taste. And I think is a fact that people in tourist class read books about business managment while travel. And those who travel in business class, read tourism magazines.Camilo Lozanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397624940788941985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-13378032967596207542011-04-16T14:29:41.887-04:002011-04-16T14:29:41.887-04:00Thanks for the comment, Jake. I have definitely b...Thanks for the comment, Jake. I have definitely been to some places/events where the throngs of camera-wielding tourists seemed a lot like an occupying army, that's for sure...Ryan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18008425994341539639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-30472522076893832052011-04-16T00:45:29.371-04:002011-04-16T00:45:29.371-04:00Poet Andrei Codrescu once wrote a piece in which h...Poet Andrei Codrescu once wrote a piece in which he compared tourists to an occupying army, but with cameras instead of guns. The analogy doesn't entirely work, but I thought it was an interesting concept.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04602564798729704808noreply@blogger.com