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Cruise Ship Tourism In Cozumel, Mexico: “Frios Como La Naturaleza De Los Gringos Lo Dice", Christine Vassallo-Oby
Cruise Ship Tourism In Cozumel, Mexico: “Frios Como La Naturaleza De Los Gringos Lo Dice", Christine Vassallo-Oby
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship
Cruise ship tourism is a dynamic site of inquiry within the anthropology of tourism. Its history and current social manifestations concerns millions of localities around the globe that combine to form a transnational entity like no other. Billions of dollars and tourists’ bodies transverse oceans every year and the historical, social, and political processes that follow these flows of money and people are appropriately complex for ethnographic engagement. Applied anthropology, as a method and theory dedicated to problem solving, seems is ripe for the study of cruise ship tourism.