Richard D. Starnes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042374
- eISBN:
- 9780813043494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042374.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited in the National Park system and showcases how the landscape and even southern history were manipulated to develop a particular experience ...
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited in the National Park system and showcases how the landscape and even southern history were manipulated to develop a particular experience for tourists. Richard D. Starnes’s essay offers an instructive overview of how decisions by park leaders led to an interpretive program focused on the primitive white settlers of the region in the nineteenth century. They did so, he argues, to the exclusion of Native American history, in effect creating an image of the Smokies as a “place in the tourist imagination.”Less
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited in the National Park system and showcases how the landscape and even southern history were manipulated to develop a particular experience for tourists. Richard D. Starnes’s essay offers an instructive overview of how decisions by park leaders led to an interpretive program focused on the primitive white settlers of the region in the nineteenth century. They did so, he argues, to the exclusion of Native American history, in effect creating an image of the Smokies as a “place in the tourist imagination.”
Amy Speier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479827664
- eISBN:
- 9781479858996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479827664.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter follows North Americans who turn to the Internet where they learn of reproductive travel to the Czech Republic, and become diligent consumers. This chapter follows largely female ...
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This chapter follows North Americans who turn to the Internet where they learn of reproductive travel to the Czech Republic, and become diligent consumers. This chapter follows largely female patients as they enter virtual biosocial communities, where they join on-line gendered support groups and engage in bio-medical global citizenship. We encounter, with the North American patients, IVF brokers who are packaging fertility holidays that promise a stress-free IVF cycle in a relaxing European setting. The marketing of fertility holidays online speaks to North American hopes, both for a child that resembles them but also for a particular kind of healthcare.Less
This chapter follows North Americans who turn to the Internet where they learn of reproductive travel to the Czech Republic, and become diligent consumers. This chapter follows largely female patients as they enter virtual biosocial communities, where they join on-line gendered support groups and engage in bio-medical global citizenship. We encounter, with the North American patients, IVF brokers who are packaging fertility holidays that promise a stress-free IVF cycle in a relaxing European setting. The marketing of fertility holidays online speaks to North American hopes, both for a child that resembles them but also for a particular kind of healthcare.
