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Embera Drua: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Village Life in Panama

Lethbridge, Amy
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4326-0190
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1475762365668354

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2016, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
This case study examines the experience of residents of the Indigenous village of Embera Drua, Panama with 20 years of tourism. It addresses the lack of Indigenous voices in tourism literature by telling the story of Embera Drua through the lens of the villagers themselves. The study uses a mix of ethnographic observation and narrative inquiry and finds that the experience of Embera Drua mirrors the experience of other Indigenous villages offering tourism around the globe, particularly the impact of lack of community capacity on management and growth of such tourism initiatives. Findings of this study are relevant to the international discourse on tourism as a development tool. This dissertation is available in open-access at OhioLink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd and AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/
Laurien Alexandre, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jon Wergin, PhD (Committee Member)
Aqeel Tirmizi, PhD (Committee Member)
Cem Basman, PhD (Committee Member)
249 p.
Cultural Anthropology; Environmental Studies; Latin American Studies; Native Studies
Indigenous communities; native people; cultural tourism; ecotourism; Panama; case study; interviews; capacity building; economic development; cultural revitalization; Embera Drua; Chagres River; Chagres National Park; Choco;

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  • Lethbridge, A. (2016). Embera Drua: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Village Life in Panama [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1475762365668354

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lethbridge, Amy. Embera Drua: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Village Life in Panama. 2016. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1475762365668354.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lethbridge, Amy. "Embera Drua: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Village Life in Panama." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1475762365668354

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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