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作者

来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.46,Issue4,P.417-439

语言

英文

关键字

tourism; nature; culture; distinction; winter sports; EXCLUSION; WORKERS

作者单位

[Steward, Shelly] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. Steward, S (reprint author), Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Sociol, 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. E-Mail: steward@berkeley.edu

摘要

This project examines how three groups in a winter resort town develop criteria of distinction through their everyday interactions. These groupsworking-class locals, ski bums from privileged backgrounds holding low-wage jobs, and wealthy vacationerseach employ the idea of nature to distinguish themselves. Locals perform their perceived connection to naturetheir interaction with and dependence on physical surroundingsto ski bums. Ski bums then draw on prior knowledge to redefine nature, stressing its separation from humans, in order to apply it as a criterion of exclusion back toward the locals. Vacationers adopt a similar definition and use it to ally themselves with the ski bums, exclude the locals, and establish their own legitimacy. Challenging most models of cultural diffusion, the privileged ski bums and vacationers implicitly recognize the terms of distinction set by the marginalized locals, indicating that group's potential for cultural innovation.