Ecotourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples

Wayne A. Babchuk is professor in the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods (QQPM) program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Ecotourism, Indigenous Peoples, and Societal ImpactsWayne A. Babchuk and Robert K. HitchcockChapter 2. Sustainable Tourism: Marketing Indigenous Identity in the Plurinational State of BoliviaF. Sonia Arellano-LópezChapter 3. Challenges of Ecotourism among the San of Botswana, Namibia, and ZimbabweRobert K. Hitchcock, Wayne A. Babchuk, and Melinda C. KellyChapter 4. Ecotourism, Anthropology, and San Community Docents and Activists:Some InteractionsMegan BieseleChapter 5. ‘Your Soul Will Remember’: Reconnecting with the Kalahari, Celebrating Traditional Knowledge, Sharing the Meat, and Becoming a Community on the ?Khomani San Lands TodayR. Fleming PuckettChapter 6. The Mayanization of the Ch’orti’: Indigenous Identity amid Tourism-based Development Initiatives in Copán, HondurasFredy Rodriguez-MejiaChapter 7. Aboriginal Alternative Tourism in Arnhem Land: Tourism as Cultural LearningSachiko Kubota Chapter 8. How Does Cultural Tourism in a National Monument Affect its Affiliated Pueblo Tribes?Vidal Gonzales, Robert K. Hitchcock and Melinda C. KellyChapter 9. Covid-19 and the Limits of Community-Based Ecotourism as a Sustainable Livelihood Diversification Strategy: The Case of the Indigenous Karo of Batu Katak, North Sumatra, IndonesiaRoderick T.J. Buiskool and Stasja KootChapter 10. Change among the Wannilaeto of Sri Lanka: Land, Livelihoods, and Ecotourism ImpactsWiveca StegebornAbout the Contributors

A highly readable book that illustrates how Indigenous peoples are proactively engaging with modernity, tourists, law makers, each other, and forms of governance.