A Public Symposium

THE CULTURE OF TOURISM

AND THE TOURISM OF CULTURE

March 24 and 25, 2000

Sponsored by

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies, and
The William P. Clements Department of History

The Culture of Tourism and the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest.
Hal K. Rothman, editor. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Session 1 Tourism and Myth  

Chris Wilson, Center for Architectural Studies, University of New Mexico, "Ethnic Personas and Social Hierarchy in Tri-Cultural New Mexico."

Phoebe Kropp, Fellow of Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, "In Search of History and Romance on El Camino Real."

Keynote Address 

Hal Rothman, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Cultural Tourism and the Future of the American Southwest: The Promise and Problem of Fusing Past and Present."

Session 2 Tourism and Tourists 

Marguerite S. Shaffer, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, "Southwestern Scrapbooks: the Travels of Mildred E. Baker."

Leah Dilworth, Department of English, Long Island University, "'Handmade by an American Indian': Souvenirs and the Cultural Economy of Southwestern Tourism."

Session 3 Tourism and Native Americans 

William L. Bryan, Jr., President, Off the Beaten Path Tours, Bozeman, Montana, "Appropriate Cultural Tourism-Can It Exist? Searching for an Answer: Three Arizona Case Studies."

Susan Guyette and David White, Ph.D.s Anthropology, and cross-cultural planning consultants in northern New Mexico, "Reducing Tourism Impacts through Cross-Cultural Planning."

Char Miller, Department of History, Trinity University, "Tourist Trap: Visitors and the Modern San Antonio Economy."

Session 4 Tourism, Power, and Economics  

Sylvia Rodríguez, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, "Tourism, Difference, and Power in the Borderlands."

Panel Discussion and Concluding Remarks. Led by Hal Rothman.

About "The Culture of Tourism and the Tourism of Culture"

The conference speakers are nationally noted authors of a variety of books, which were on hand for purchase and signing.

This conference had its genesis at a meeting at Southern Methodist University's Taos campus, funded by a gift in honor of Gov. Bill Clements by Karl Rove and other friends of Gov. Clements. Conference speakers met at Fort Burgwin in Taos to present preliminary papers and discuss them in private. The papers heard at SMU have been revised and refined in light of that discussion, and reflect longer essays that the keynote speaker, Hal K. Rothman, compiled and edited into a book published by the University of New Mexico Press for the Clements Center for Southwest Studies.