Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Ser.: Tour Guide : Walking and Talking New York by Jonathan R. Wynn (2011, Trade Paperback)

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And the guides are as intriguing as the subjects, we learn, as Jonathan R. Wynn explores the lives of the people behind the tours, introducing us to office workers looking for a diversion from their desk jobs, unemployed actors honing their vocal skills, and struggling retirees searching for a second calling.

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226919064
ISBN-139780226919065
eBay Product ID (ePID)99706653

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTour Guide : Walking and Talking New York
SubjectIndustries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorJonathan R. Wynn
SeriesFieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-048754
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal917.4710444
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: City Murals Characters in the Crowds, Offering New York "Like a Native" The Work of Walking The Walking Guide, the City, and This Book One: The Guiding World From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Statue of Liberty The Rise of New York Guiding "There Are Many Guides, and Only One Test" Seven Tensions Two: An Untidy Career After the Rush Deciding to "Make a Go of It": Getting into Guiding Working as a Guide Harmonizing Work, and Other Rationales Beyond the Sidewalk Three: The Guide-Centered Working Ecology Guiding Relations Connecting with Other Guides Wrangling, Promoting, Connecting: Working with Organizations " . . . But They Also Use Our Name to Market Themselves" Four: Shticks of the Trade "We Change Our Environment" Routemaking Eight Storytelling Tricks "Walking Is about Your Senses . . . It's about Experiencing" Five: Entertaining Identities Working with an Audience Interacting with Common Tourist Types Negotiating Edutainment "They Expect You as the Product as Well" Situational Identities and Symbolic Armor Six: Rekeying the City Neighborhood Narratives and Urban Cultures "I Don't Own the Neighborhood . . . " A Different Kind of Tourism: "Teaching the Stuff That Tourists Don't Even Know That They Want to Know" "Learning 'The Connect'": Tours and Street Intellectualism Seven: Urban Alchemists The Transmutation of the City "It's a Charming Story, and I Couch It That Way": Shifting the Cultural Ground "Do You Want to Come In and See My House?" Spontaneity and the City "I Tell Them How to Dress:" Transforming the Visitor into a Local and a Local into a Tourist Ghosts in the Machine Appendix A: Quizzes, Tests, and Dissertations Locating Research, Locating Researcher How I Ended Up Giving a Walking Tour The Walking Guide and the Graduate Student Appendix B: Cast of Characters Appendix C: Catalogue of Tours Taken Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisEveryone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start--and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of New York's raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverse--and eccentric--as the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, the culinary traditions of Queens, the culture of Harlem, or even the surveillance cameras of Chelsea--in short, there are tours to satisfy anyone's curiosity about the city's past or present. And the guides are as intriguing as the subjects, we learn, as Jonathan R. Wynn explores the lives of the people behind the tours, introducing us to office workers looking for a diversion from their desk jobs, unemployed actors honing their vocal skills, and struggling retirees searching for a second calling. Matching years of research with his own experiences as a guide, Wynn also lays bare the grueling process of acquiring an official license and offers a how-to guide to designing and leading a tour. Touching on the long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New York's tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11, The Tour Guide is as informative and insightful as the chatty, charming, and colorful characters at its heart.
LC Classification NumberF128.3.W96 2011

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