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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 about tourism: how race shapes interactions between tourists and workers, how tourists may become agents of cultural change, the meaning of sexual encoun
Tourism - Caribbean Area - Anecdotes. --- Tourism --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Travel & Tourism --- Employees --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Economic aspects --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- E-books --- #SBIB:316.7C440 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Toerisme en vakantie: algemeen --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning
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A televised baseball game from Puerto Rico, Japan, or even Cuba might look a lot like the North American game. This book looks at how the game was imported - how it took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed - and what these local and regional trends and features say about the sport's place in particular cultures.
Baseball. --- Base-ball --- Ball games
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"Anthrogologists George and Sharon Gmelch have lived among the itinerant people known as Travelers since their first fieldwork in the early 1970s. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had knows decades before--shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs that they shared with Traveller friends and acquaintances. Many of those black-and-white photos are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and personal narratives that reveal how Travelers lives have changed and what it means to be a Traveler today"--
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) --- Social conditions. --- Ireland --- Ethnic relations.
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This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.
Ethnology --- Anthropology --- Methodology. --- Fieldwork. --- alaska. --- alsek river. --- anthropological approach to knowledge. --- anthropological approach. --- anthropological field work. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- barbadian villages. --- barbados. --- common problems in field work. --- cultural anthropologists. --- cultural anthropology. --- ethnology. --- field work. --- fieldwork traditions. --- global anthropological field work. --- irish travellers. --- japan. --- questions anthropologists ask. --- social science. --- student field workers.
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"A collection of essays about baseball in other countries across the globe that explores a wide range of issues for each region"-- "Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.This collection of essays tells the story of America's national pastime as it spread across the world and underwent instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseballtook hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport's place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball's passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose"--
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Essays & Writings. --- Baseball players --- Baseball --- Baseballers --- Players, Baseball --- Athletes --- History. --- Major League Baseball (Organization). --- MLB (Major League Baseball) --- Béisbol de Grandes Ligas (Organization) --- Мейджър Лийг Бейзбол (Organization) --- Meĭdzhŭr Liĭg Beĭzbol (Organization) --- Grandes Ligas de Béisbol (Organization) --- Grandaj Ligoj de Basbalo (Organization) --- Beisbol Liga Handiak (Organization) --- Beisbol Liga Nagusiak (Organization) --- Ligue majeure de baseball (Organization) --- מייג'ור ליג בייסבול (Organization) --- Meyg'or Lig Beysbol (Organization) --- Augstākā beisbola līga (Organization) --- メジャーリーグベースボール (Organization) --- Mejā Rīgu Bēsubōru (Organization) --- Mejārīgubēsubōru (Organization) --- Главная лига бейсбола (Organization) --- Glavnai︠a︡ liga beĭsbola (Organization) --- МЛБ --- Главна лига бејзбола (Organization) --- Glavna liga bejzbola (Organization) --- Головна бейсбольна ліга (Organization) --- Holovna beĭsbolʹna liha (Organization) --- ГБЛ --- HBL (Holovna beĭsbolʹna liha) --- 美國職業棒球大聯盟 (Organization) --- Meiguo zhi ye bang qiu da lian meng (Organization) --- American League of Professional Baseball Clubs --- National League of Professional Baseball Clubs --- World Series (Baseball) --- World's Series (Baseball) --- Sèries Mundials de beisbol --- Světová série (Baseball) --- Αμερικανικό πρωτάθλημα Μπέιζμπολ --- Amerikaniko prōtathlēma Beizmpol --- Serie Mundial (Baseball) --- Série mondiale (Baseball) --- 월드 시리즈 (Baseball) --- Wŏldŭ Sirijŭ (Baseball) --- וורלד סיריס (Baseball) --- Ṿorld Siris (Baseball) --- Series Mundana (Baseball) --- Pasaules sērija (Baseball) --- ワールドシリーズ (Baseball) --- Wārudo Shirīzu (Baseball) --- Мировая серия (Baseball) --- Mirovai︠a︡ serii︠a︡ (Baseball) --- Світова серія (Baseball) --- Svitova serii︠a︡ (Baseball) --- 世界大賽 (Baseball) --- Shi jie da sai (Baseball) --- Shijie dasai (Baseball) --- American League Championship Series (Baseball) --- National League Championship Series (Baseball) --- Social aspects.
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Sociology of environment --- anthropology --- migration [function] --- cities
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Urban anthropology. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Anthropologie urbaine --- Sociologie urbaine
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