Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators

This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea focuses on tour guides as cultural mediators. It is opened with a discussion of tour guiding in the anthropology of tourism by Jackie Feldman and Jonathan Skinner and consideration of how tour guiding should be seen as imaginative and performative practice. This is illustrated by a highly international and comparative collection by leading anthropologists and ethnologists, many of whom have guiding experience themselves: Valerio Simoni on intimacy, informality and sexuality in guiding relations in Cuba; David Picard on modern guiding and traditional values in La Réunion; Jackie Feldman on Jewish-Israelis guiding Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land; Amos Ron and Yotam Lurie on the intimacy and trust in guide‒tourist relations in Israel; Annelou Ypeij, Eva Krah and Floor van der Hout on the impact of gender on guide‒ local relations in Peru; Irit Dekel on the manipulation of the past and the present in home-museums in Germany; Jonathan Skinner on the imagination and props involved in the re-animation of heritage in a historical fantasy home in the UK. The special issue is closed with discussion commentaries from Noel Salazar and Erik Cohen that reiterate tour guiding as a particularly temporal and physical mediating pursuit, one which raises critical questions as to the future “mechanics” of tour guiding and how a performative approach to guiding engages with “authenticity” and new technologies.


Editorial

TOUR GUIDES AS CULTURAL MEDIATORS

Jackie Feldman and Jonathan Skinner

2018-01-05 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 5-13

Themed section

INFORMAL GUIDING

Valerio Simoni

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 14-27

KITCHEN BANALITIES INTO TOURIST MAGIC

David Picard

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 28-40

MEDIATION AS A PRACTICE OF IDENTITY

Jackie Feldman

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 41-54

THE INTIMACY OF MEDIATION

Amos S. Ron and Yotam Lurie

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 55-67

WOMEN WEAVERS AND MALE TOUR GUIDES

Annelou Ypeij, Eva Krah and Floor van der Hout

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 68-81

QUOTING AND TELLING

Irit Dekel

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 82-95

TECHNIQUES OF THE IMAGINATION IN THE TRIBUNE

Jonathan Skinner

2018-01-12 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 96-110

Comments

THE MECHANICS AND MECHANISMS OF TOURISM BROKERING

Noel B. Salazar

2018-01-05 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 111-116

CONCLUSION: AN EMERGENT PERFORMANCE PARADIGM IN GUIDING STUDIES

Erik Cohen

2018-01-05 Volume 48 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Special Issue - Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators • 117-120

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