ANTH250

Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage

15 points

Not offered 2025, offered in 2014, 2015, 2023, 2024

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences

Description

The course introduces students to Sociological and Anthropological approaches to travel and tourism. Through the study of topics such as travel literature, indigenous tourism, tourism and development, sex tourism and 'dark' tourism, it examines the way in which notions of the cultural 'self' and cultural 'others' have been both forged and sustained within various sorts of tourist encounter.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

ANTH350, SOCI275, SOCI375

Equivalent Courses

SOCI275