Occupying the Centre: Handicraft Vendors, Cultural Vitality, Commodi fication, and Tourism in Cusco, Peru

Seligmann, Linda J.; Guevara, Daniel

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“…They have been seen as tools for the commodification of immigrant cultural economies, such as Vancouver's Chinatown Night Market (Pottie-Sherman, 2013) and Amsterdam's Dappermarkt (Janssens & Sezer, 2013b). They have also been part of gentrification processes in the inner-city areas subject to market pressures, as seen in Cusco's marketplaces in Peru (Seligman &Guevara, 2013) andBeijing's Silk Street Market (Lin Pang &Sterling, 2013).…”

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“…In all the sites discussed in this issue—Antigua, Pelourinho, Havana, and the Archipelago of Bocas del Toro—and in Cusco (where I have carried out research on tourism, vendors, and spatial restructuring (Seligmann and Guevara ), one cannot help but be charmed by the folkloric presentations conveyed through performances of music, dance, and costume, the sale of native handicrafts, the boutique hotels lining side streets, and the restaurants serving foods that are emblematic of each country's indigenous roots (made palatable in imaginative fashion). Even if we recognize that this is a securely guarded area, in which only selective lifeways are cultivated while others are excluded, it would take some time and sleuthing before it became apparent (if it ever did) to tourists that a large proportion of what passes for national or local tourism is controlled by foreign companies and foreign capital.…”

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“…Instead, they are displaced to other loci. At the same time, the very creation of these kinds of spatial constructs makes it far more difficult for local populations to exercise agency in order to mobilize politically or to create ongoing community ties, divided as they often are from one another in where and how they are forced to make a living (see Seligmann , Seligmann and Guevara , and Guerrón Montero, this issue).…”

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Conclusion: Policing the Borders, Advanced Capitalism, Touristic Ventures, and National Visions

Seligmann

2014

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The pleasures and hazards of travel, the subject of many an anthropological account, go beyond encounters with the unknown. As the authors of this special issue on tourism and policing demonstrate, tourism generates practices and structures that simultaneously empower and divide, and set in motion dynamics that take on a life of their own and thus cannot easily be undone. Even as each of the authors focuses on different populations, sites, and kinds of tourism to approach the relationship between tourism and policing, their findings share commonalities. All of the authors have undertaken long-term, fine-grained field research, allowing them to follow structural and substantive transformations over time. They are able to track how the interactions of policing and tourism affect racialization, the structuring and organization of space, economic inequalities, aesthetic sensibilities, shifts in discourse, and the exercise of power among different population sectors. Because of the sustained fieldwork they have conducted, they are also able to examine scalar dimensions-those changes in policy and practice that may originate from different loci, yet have repercussions that are felt both within and far beyond the site in question. Their fieldwork also has permitted them to demonstrate the ongoing ways in which, even in this "postcolonial" age, the sedimentation of imperialism and colonialism reach into the present and continue to affect people's lives and ideas (Stoler 2013).Another common theme among the articles is the authors' recognition that policing figures centrally in the nature of spatial and racial configurations, whether in urban or rural settings. Race, sculpted as ethnicity, and space, as a highly politicized cultural design, are critical resources in terms of how tourism unfolds. Further, as Hodge shows, the policing of sexuality, as it is intertwined with genderedThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 502-509. ISSN 1935-4932, online ISSN 1935-4940. C 502J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y

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