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- Title
The Gift of Respect: Tourist Gift Giving and the Construction of Self-Respect Among Authorized Sightseeing Rickshaw Drivers in Bharatpur, India.
- Authors
Bridger Wilson, Emera
- Abstract
Tourism workers may actively cultivate relationships with tourists to counter the social and economic marginalization they face by others involved in the tourism economy. In this article I explore the ways in which sightseeing rickshaw drivers use gifts as symbols of these relationships with tourists. I base my analysis on sixteen months of fieldwork that I conducted in 2008-9 with the authorized sightseeing rickshaw drivers at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. I argue that they use gifts, both materially and discursively, to create a space in which they can construct narratives of self-respect.
- Subjects
KEOLADEO National Park (India); BHARATPUR District (India); SCENIC transportation; RICKSHAW men
- Publication
International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2018, Vol 22, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
1022-4556
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11407-018-9230-8