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Contributors Elena Calvo-Gonza´lez received her PhD in Anthropology from The University of Manchester, UK. Since then, she has been researching, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, issues of embodiment and race with regard to public health policies and medical technologies. James G. Carrier began studying tourism, environmental conservation and economy in Jamaica and the Caribbean in the mid-1990s. He has supervised or co-supervised projects dealing with these topics in Montego Bay, Negril and Port Antonio, all in Jamaica. He is currently Senior Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. Luciana Duccini received her PhD in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She is currently a lecturer at Universidade Federal do Vale do Sa˜o Francisco. Her research interests include African- Brazilian religion and its relationships with identity processes, social class and tourism. C. Michael Hall was a Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, at the time of writing. He is also a Docent in the Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland and a Visiting Professor, Baltic Business School, University of Kalmar, Sweden. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism, he has published widely in the fields of tourism, regional studies, gastronomy, environmental history and environmental change. Michael Hitchcock is Deputy Dean (Research and External Relations) at the University of Chichester and formerly Director of the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development at London Metropolitan University. While teaching at Hull University in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Centre for South-East Asian Studies, he was the co-editor of Tourism in South-East Asia (Routledge, 1993). vii viii Tourism, Power and Culture Teresa Holmes is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto (Ontario), Canada. Her teaching and research interests include tourism studies, colonial and postcolonial culture, historical anthropology, and critical kinship studies. Her chapter in this volume is part of an ongoing project on issues of ethnic citizenship and tourism in Belize. Charlotte Joy is an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. During her doctoral research, she carried out 10 months of fieldwork in Djenne´, Mali and spent two months at UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Department in Paris. She is specialising in developing a comparative ethnographic approach to the study of cultural heritage politics and its relationship to development issues. Donald V.L. Macleod trained in anthropology at Oxford University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow where he has run two research centres. He has researched in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Scotland, and published widely on tourism impacts, cultural change, globalisation, identity, sustainable tourism development and heritage. His books include Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change (2004), Niche Tourism in Question (2003, editor), Tourists and Tourism (1997, co-editor). I Nyoman Darma Putra is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. He is a lecturer at the Indonesian Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Udayana, Bali. With Michael Hitchcock, he published Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali (Ashgate, 2007). Gunilla Sommer studied anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and did field work for her master thesis in a Bolivian rain forest community working with ecotourism. After completing her studies, she did field work on tourism in Jamaica as a research assistant and later she worked in the tourism business in Bolivia and Egypt. Veronica Strang is an environmental anthropologist at the University of Auckland. She has written extensively on water, land and resource issues in Australia and the UK, and is the author of The Meaning of Water (Berg, 2004); and Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water (Berghahn, 2009). Contributors ix Dimitrios Theodossopoulos teaches anthropology at the University of Bristol. His earlier work examined people-wildlife conflicts and indigen- ous perceptions of the environment. He is currently working on ethnic stereotypes, indigeneity, authenticity and the politics of cultural repre- sentation in Panama and South-East Europe. He is the author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn, 2003), and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge, 2006) and United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Berghahn, 2009). .