Title: Moving Beyond the Static Concepts of Host and Guest: a case study from Lombok, IndonesiaSubmitted by: Gavan Cushnahan, Department of Anthropology ,The University of Western Australia, AustraliaThe developed world, through the experience of other peoples via tourism, has come to conceive of communities in the developing world as static and capable of experiencing change mostly as a consequence of the effects of contact with the outside world. Communities living on small tropical islands have been particularly prone to stereotyping as unchanging paradises populated with lazy locals. Small tropical islands have and continue to possess a special place in the mythology and myth-making of popular culture in the West. This in turn informs the experience both tourists and outsiders generally have of small islands. Recent research on the popular tourist island of Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia demonstrates that individuals and groups in small and impoverished communities can both perceive opportunities for development and change via the tourist encounter, as well as actively pursue them.
'Return to Abstracts menuCarol Burnett Phone: 61 - 3 - 9349 1899 Email: c.burnett@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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