Stereopticon: Entry to a Life of Travel and Tourism Research (Tourism Dynamics)

Valene Smith is often referred to as the Margret Mead of anthropology of tourism; as a leader in the initiation of the field as an academic enterprise by contributing to the base foundation of the science. With the publication of Stereopticon: Entry to a life of Travel and Tourism Research, she shares with us the life that led her to this revelation. Travel with her and her family and friends when travel was a true adventure for only the stout hearted and the very rich. Valene felt compelled to write her autobiography so that the world and its population has one record of a lower middle class American family who functioned successfully during three important eras in our nations history: The Great Depression, World War II, and the Post Industrial Error.