Tourism and indigenous heritage in Latin America: as observed through Mexico's magical village Cuetzalan

摘要

From the early 1990s, a diverse body of tourism scholars have examined the links between indigenous people and tourism, mainly through the theoretical lenses of cultural or community-based tourism (CBT), sustainable development and natural resources management (for a review of the Anglophone literature on the topic, see Carr, Ruhanen & Whitford, 2016; for a review of recent Latin American research, see Pereiro, 2016). In the face of globalization and modernity, there has been a growing concern over the governance and preservation of indigenous cultural heritage reflecting the recommendations posited by international organizations like UNESCO. Going beyond the sustainability and empowerment frameworks frequently employed in the tourism literature, Casper Jacobsen's Tourism and indigenous heritage in Latin America: As observed through Mexico's Magical Village Cuetzalan offers the reader a critical examination of the emergence of multicultourism, denned by the author as a neoliberal governmentality frame that fuses multicultural politics of recognition with tourism, while conceptualizing indigenous heritage as a 'national resource' to be exploited in tourism initiatives.