So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide by Bunten, Alexis C.
So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide by Bunten, Alexis C.

So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide

So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is...
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Author: Alexis C. Bunten
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So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide by Bunten, Alexis C.

So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide

$424.97
So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide by Bunten, Alexis C.

So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide

$424.97
Author: Alexis C. Bunten
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten's narrative takes readers through the summer tour season as she is hired and trained and eventually becomes a guide.


A multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, cultural tourism provides one of the most ubiquitous face-to-face interactions between peoples of different cultures and is arguably one of the primary means by which knowledge about other cultures is disseminated. Bunten goes beyond debates about who owns Native culture and has the right to "sell" it to tourists. Through a series of anecdotes, she examines issues such as how and why Natives choose to sell their culture, the cutthroat politics of business in a small town, how the cruise industry maintains its bottom line, the impact of colonization on contemporary Native peoples, the ways that traditional cultural values play a role in everyday life for contemporary Alaska Natives, and how Indigenous peoples are engaging in global enterprises on their own terms. Bunten's bottom-up approach provides a fascinating and informative look at the cultural tourism industry in Alaska.


Alexis C. Bunten is a project ethnographer at Simon Fraser University and a senior researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Journal of Museum Education, and American Ethnologist.




Author: Alexis C. Bunten
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.80w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780803234628


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2015
Choice 12/01/2015

About the Author
Alexis C. Bunten is a project ethnographer at Simon Fraser University and a senior researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Journal of Museum Education, and American Ethnologist.

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