Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is co-editor of Keywords of Mobility (2016) and Regimes of Mobility (2014), and author of Envisioning Eden (2010) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the anthropology of travel. He is vice-president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and member of the Young Academy of Belgium.

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Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries
Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn

PART I: IMAGINARIES OF PEOPLES

Chapter 1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to New Guinea's "Treehouse People"
Rupert Stasch

Chapter 2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Chapter 3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism
Alexis Celeste Bunten

Chapter 4. Myth Management in Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond
Margaret Byrne Swain

Chapter 5. Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community
João Afonso Baptista

PART II: IMAGINARIES OF PLACES

Chapter 6. The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina
Michael A. Di Giovine

Chapter 7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales
Federica Ferraris

Chapter 8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times
Paula Mota Santos

Chapter 9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries
Kenneth Little

Chapter 10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands
Anke Tonnaer

Afterword: Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism
Naomi Leite

Notes on Contributors

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