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Tourism and Language in Vieques documents the unfolding interplay between development and language on a small island easily engulfed by the hegemonic service economy of tourism. The voice of the Viequenses is combative, yet strangely mock heroic and bound to remain misunderstood, and therefore not listened to. In his very readable book, anthropologist Luis Galanes Valldejuli ably portrays, through in-depth ethnographic research and `thick' descriptions, how `the complex, the messy, the lived ' experiences of the Viequense defy essentialist representations. He does so in ways that acknowledge and remind us of the inherent, cultural, and dynamic complexity and diversity that shuns dualist categories. -- Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta Tourism and Language in Vieques is a very sensitively and deliberately written ethnography on tourism, power, and language. Valldejuli has collected the utterances of Viequense subalterns who have been silenced in the face of tourism development not to 'give them voice,' but to reveal the mechanics of 'epistemic violence.' -- L. Kaifa Roland, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Luis Galanes Valldejuli is professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey.

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