Tourism and Globalization

Exploratory Paper on Who Owns Native Culture?

Background: While the last round of papers was generally good, I do have the feeling that there hasn't always been as much understanding as I would like to see in a graduate course of the basic arguments the various authors we have been reading have been making. Accordingly, I am scaling down the assignment for Michael Brown's Who Owns Native Culture to focus very specifically on what his overall research problem is and what argument he makes about it in a specific chapter. Accordingly, I ask you to write a relatively brief (roughly three-page, double-spaced) paper that does the following (I will expect you to have read the whole book, even though you will focus on a particular chapter for question 2.)

1. Explains what Brown's overall research problem is in the book. What is the book about? What basic research question(s) is he trying to answer?

2. Choose any one of chapters 2-7. Explain how that chapter fits into the overall structure of the book and then summarize the key argument that Brown is making in that chapter.

3. Briefly evaluate his argument, in terms of the evidence he provides and any other relevant materials from the course or elewhere.

Note: Because this paper is less ambitious than originally planned, and the second exploratory paper (on one's personal travel strategy) is more, this one will count for 10% of the final grade and the other 30%.