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Silent Conflict in High-profile Cities. Latin America and Beyond
Silent Conflict in High-profile Cities. Latin America and Beyond

Author(s): Krystian Darmach
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Tourism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: mass tourism; cultural conflict; urban anthropology; hospitality

Summary/Abstract: This anthropological essay provides a meditation on mass tourism while analysing the mechanisms of conflict between the needs of mass tourism and the local urban environment, extraterritorial spaces that fit into the universal heritage of humanity. Historical districts/ entertainment districts in capital cities are discussed as extraterritorial areas treated as ambivalent, bypassed, business bases. The tourists themselves constitute thoroughly ambivalent figures as tame strangers, treated simultaneously as a potential source of maximum earnings and intruders.

  • Issue Year: 25/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English