Aula aberta: “On tourism social sciences. Five anthropological constellations”, por Antonio Nogués Pedregal (Universitas Miguel Hernández)

Resumo

After a countless number of socio-anthropological articles published in scientific journals, what have we learned since anthropologists realized that tourists alter the nature of the local societies they study? It is argued that five key points have been reached: (1) Tourism is another name of power. (2) The complex nature of Tourism cannot be fully understood without studying the social and cultural processes that constitute a tourism environment. (3) The socio-ecological processes that construct territory determine and are determined by the social space and the different kinds of capital distributed. (4) The industry of seduction creates a body of desires through which socio-cultural groups forge their own frame of sense and identity. (5) The potentialities shown by Tourism to mediate in the creation of meanings allow researchers to suggest alternative tourism developments