ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Adventure Travel, Disneyfication, Ecotourism
14 Nov 2012
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Critical medical anthropology-includes of focus on political economy. Looks at the relationship of government, exchange, policies and its influence on medicine, illness etc. Political economy-the study of production and the exchange of goods. Tourism-travel to a place outside of your own home, not necessarily outside of your country, for purposes of leisure and less than one year. What is being produced in tourism-experience, souvenirs etc. Also a medical issues, the epidemiology of hiv/aids, connections with the tourism industry and vulnerability to hiv/aids. Huge inequalities between the wealth and life outcomes/possibilities between the tourists and the natives. Idea of the stereotype of the sexualized black person. Dominica is adventure tourism, no sex workers (or very few), not 5 star resorts. Dominica is very mountainous, not white sandy beaches, serious undertow on the sea, black sand beaches (really hot on feet). People in dominica must try to figure out how to attract tourists, no international airport, cannot land there at night.
