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Behind the Smile, Second Edition: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism

Behind the Smile, Second Edition: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism Paperback / softback - 2012 - 2nd Edition

by George Gmelch

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Paperback / softback. New. Provides a workers'-eye view of Caribbean tourism
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  • Title Behind the Smile, Second Edition: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism
  • Author George Gmelch
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2012-03-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780253001238
  • ISBN 9780253001238 / 0253001234
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Library of Congress subjects Tourism - Caribbean Area, Tourism - Caribbean Area - Employees
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011042309
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.761

About the author

George Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College. He has studied Irish Travellers, return migrants, commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, Caribbean villagers and tourism workers, and American professional baseball players. He is the author of eleven books, including (with Sharon Bohn Gmelch) Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley (Indiana University Press, 2011). He has written two other books on Barbados: Double Passage, which is about return migration, and The Parish behind God's Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados. He has also written widely for general audiences, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Natural History.