Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, And The Sexual Economy Of Tourism (The Anthropology Of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, And Society)

Combining historic and ethnographic research, Angela R. Demovic reveals the intersection of alcohol sales and stripteasing in the French Quarter. She demonstrates how B-drinkers-workers hired by bar owners to flirt with patrons who buy them drinks-maintain agency and create community in a tourism economy.

• | Author: Angela R. Demovic
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: May 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498531326
• | ISBN-13: 9781498531320