ANTH 3120 Study Guide - World Tourism Organization, Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital

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25 Mar 2014
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Anth 3120 lecture 8 backpackers and the post-modern tourist (11/11/13) Diversity of tourist: world tourism organization definition does not define what is tourist is accurately, nationality, gender, domestic versus international, social class, modes and attitudes of travel ( how do people actually travel?) Class and tourism: leisure tourists were predominantly from top 1-10% by wealth and income first airplanes -- took 6 or 7 days to fly --> little hops of travels, pilgrimage tourists were from all classes. Examples: the canadian and global middle class. Capitalist and proletariat (marxist --> the ones who deploy capital and then the rest) Lower (working) class; middle class; upper class classified by income/wealth, education. Middle class at the time of the french revolution (business owners) Middle class today - people with decent jobs etc. / stable incomes/ pensions/ ability to save money/ access to education not always available to others/ability to start small businesses. Family incomes before -125k considered to be middle class.