Behind the Smile is an inside look at the world of Caribbean tourism as seen through the lives of the men and women in the tourist industry in Barbados. The workers represent every level of tourism, from maid to hotel manager, beach gigolo to taxi driver, red cap to diving instructor. These highly personal accounts offer insight into complex questions surrounding tourism: how race shapes interactions between tourists and workers, how tourists may become agents of cultural change, the meaning of sexual encounters between locals and tourists, and the real economic and ecological costs of development through tourism. This updated edition updates the text and includes several new narratives and a new chapter about American students’ experiences during summer field school and home stays in Barbados.

Behind the Smile, Second Edition: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism

George Gmelch

Indiana University Press

Urban Life: Readings in Urban Enthnography. Edited by George Gmelch

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Playing with Tigers

University Of Nebraska Press

To Shorten the Road: Traveller Folk Tales from Ireland

Travel

Europe

O'Brien Press Ltd

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

J. M. Synge's Ireland: In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara

J.M. Synge

Ann Saddlemyer

Literature & Fiction

The O'Brien Press

This fascinating anthology of readings contains both a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest as well as important new research. Altogether, thirty-two anthropologists and social scientists provide an authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities. The collection's primary concerns are the unique demands posed by urban social environments and the ways in which human cultures have dealt with them. The essays are integrated by several underlying themes, chief among them being adaptation--the strategies people, both as individuals and as members of groups, use to cope with the demands of life in the city. The volume is comparative, drawing on research completed in all parts of the world.

Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology

Social Sciences

Waveland Pr Inc.

More than half of the world's population lives in cities. What are their lives like in very different global and globalizing cities? How can urban anthropologists study and understand the diverse and complex experiences of urban dwellers all over the globe?
 The latest edition of Urban Life explores questions about how to study urban lives and examines experiences of urban inhabitants in cities across the globe. Authors ask questions such as, how can one study the activities in a huge fish market in Tokyo? How do elderly residents benefit from urban agriculture in New York City? How do people maneuver ever-present traffic jams in Istanbul? How do low-income residents in Cairo manage their lives drawing on neighborhood social networks? How do immigrants fight for green spaces in Paris? How do families manage transnational ties between New York City and Ecuador?
 The book is organized into six parts: Urban Fieldwork; Communities; Urban Structure, Inequality, and Survival; Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees; Changing Cities; and Current Topics in Urban Anthropology. The last part addresses issues at the forefront of anthropological research and broader political debates, like environmental justice, disability and accessibility, and access to water supplies. Each part includes an introduction and each chapter is preceded by notes about its context and relevance. The rich ethnographic content of the chapters makes them highly accessible to students while addressing relevant topics and themes.

Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City, Sixth Edition

Petra Kuppinger

Waveland Press. Inc.

Interviews with twenty-one individuals who work in association with baseball fields, from people in the public eye like Bernie Williams and Jim Leyland, to groundskeepers, ushers, clubhouse attendants, and others behind-the-scenes

In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People

Sports & Outdoors

J.J. Weiner

Baseball

Smithsonian

The Parish Behind God's Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados, Second Edition

Sharon Bohn Gmelch

History

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