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<p> The narratives are thought-provoking and Gmelch's comments areinsightful. Everyone in the tourist industry should have this book on theirshelves. -- Anthropological Quarterly

<p>. .. provides extraordinary insight into the personal views of tourismworkers in Barbados... [T]he answers of the tourism workers make interesting andsometimes surprising reading. -- The Nation (Barbardos)

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George Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College. He has studied Irish Travellers, return migrants, commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, Caribbean villagers, tourism workers, and American professional baseball players. He is the author of eleven books, including (with Sharon Bohn Gmelch) Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley (IUP, 2011). He has written two other books on Barbados: Double Passage, which is about return migration, and The Parish behind God's Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados (with Sharon Bohn Gmelch). He has also written widely for general audiences, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Natural History.

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