Making the modern primitive: cultural tourism in the Trobriand Islands

Ethnographic context : the place and the people

Modernity and primitivity : definitions and discourses in imagining alterity

Fixing the tourist gaze : essentializing the primitive and the creation of desire in textual and visual media

Spectacular culture : performance and festivals

Producing and consuming experience : commoditizing "real life"

Producing and consuming things : material culture as meaningful object

Tourist photography : prefiguring and postfiguring the touristic experience

Cashing in on culture : the meaning of money in tourist-Trobriand transactions.