In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visi

For abstracts see: Caribbean abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 61.

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies.

DIVAn ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization./div

The essays in this collection explore the history of tourism and its promotion and development throughout Latin American and the Caribbean in the twentieth cent