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From Gold Mining to the Golden Prison of Ecotourism Lodges in Madre de Dios, Amazonia Perú

Ulmer, Gordon Lewis
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306904085

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Anthropology.
I explore the production of social, cultural, and natural space in the Madre de Dios (Amazonia Perú) biosphere. Following a political ecology approach, I focus on the experiences of locals who worked primarily in gold mining, timber, and other extractive economies prior to becoming tourism guides and examine how the transition to an institutionally regulated livelihood around ecotourism has reshaped the ways they perceive and constitute themselves in relation to concepts of family, nature, insiders and outsiders, ownership, and modernity. I argue that tour guides navigate through a constellation of dialectical relationships that bisect local, national, and global connections and mediate articulations between local labor (the ecotourism guides), national tourism markets (including the Peruvian state), and the global economic system (including NGOs, lodge operators/owners).
Jeffrey Cohen, PhD (Advisor)
Mark Moritz, PhD (Committee Member)
Ray Cashman, PhD (Committee Member)
Cultural Anthropology
ecotourism; political ecology; Madre de Dios; Amazonia; Peru; social nature; capital

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  • Ulmer, G. L. (2011). From Gold Mining to the Golden Prison of Ecotourism Lodges in Madre de Dios, Amazonia Perú [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306904085

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ulmer, Gordon. From Gold Mining to the Golden Prison of Ecotourism Lodges in Madre de Dios, Amazonia Perú. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306904085.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ulmer, Gordon. "From Gold Mining to the Golden Prison of Ecotourism Lodges in Madre de Dios, Amazonia Perú." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306904085

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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