Countering “Arctification”: Dawson City’s “Sourtoe Cocktail”

• Published in: Journal of Tourism Futures
• Main Authors: Elizabeth Ann Cooper, Michelle Spinei, Alix Varnajot
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald Publishing 2020
• Subjects: sustainability; tourist experience; arctic tourism; arctification; sight sacralization; Social Sciences; H; Arctic; Yukon; Dawson City; Dawson
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-01-2019-0008; https://doaj.org/article/d5677130bed5425982b14eae98e8538a

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe in it. Springing from a local legend, the thrill-inducing Sourtoe Cocktail has attracted the attention of touris...