Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India

by Jennifer Huberman

This ethnographic study brings together scholarship on the anthropology of childhood, tourism, consumption, and exchange to examine how and why children working as unlicensed peddlers and tourist guides along the waterfront of Banaras, India, a popular and iconic tourist destination, elicit such powerful reactions from western visitors and locals in their community and explores how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.

245 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2012