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

Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in the...

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