Feasting on friends : Whales, puffins, and tourism in Iceland
This chapter focuses on the island nation of Iceland (population 333,000) and considers the ways in which charismatic marine fauna such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and puffins have become iconic and symbolically significant objects of exchange in tourism marketing on the island. C...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/564139 2024-01-21T10:07:13+01:00 Feasting on friends : Whales, puffins, and tourism in Iceland Huijbens, Edward H. Einarsson, N. 2018 text/html https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/feasting-on-friends-whales-puffins-and-tourism-in-iceland https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265186 en eng Taylor & Francis https://edepot.wur.nl/521580 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/feasting-on-friends-whales-puffins-and-tourism-in-iceland doi:10.4324/9781315265186 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Wageningen University & Research Tourism Experiences and Animal Consumption ISBN: 9781138291614 Life Science info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Part of book or chapter of book info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftunivwagenin https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265186 2023-12-27T23:14:19Z This chapter focuses on the island nation of Iceland (population 333,000) and considers the ways in which charismatic marine fauna such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and puffins have become iconic and symbolically significant objects of exchange in tourism marketing on the island. Cetaceans and puffins are used to market wildlife tourism and specific regions and to sell souvenirs, and in the process are personified and made amicable. Thriving alongside this commercial anthropomorphism is their commodity status in Iceland as food and sustenance, as these animals have traditionally been, and still are, eaten by the inhabitants. Paradoxically, the eating of whale and puffin meat has become a tourist attraction in itself, in tandem with the very rapid growth of the tourist industry in the country and the concomitant growth in whale and puffin watching in the most recent years. The discussion in this chapter draws on these contradictory practices of commodification set within a flourishing tourism industry. Book Part Iceland Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library |
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This chapter focuses on the island nation of Iceland (population 333,000) and considers the ways in which charismatic marine fauna such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and puffins have become iconic and symbolically significant objects of exchange in tourism marketing on the island. Cetaceans and puffins are used to market wildlife tourism and specific regions and to sell souvenirs, and in the process are personified and made amicable. Thriving alongside this commercial anthropomorphism is their commodity status in Iceland as food and sustenance, as these animals have traditionally been, and still are, eaten by the inhabitants. Paradoxically, the eating of whale and puffin meat has become a tourist attraction in itself, in tandem with the very rapid growth of the tourist industry in the country and the concomitant growth in whale and puffin watching in the most recent years. The discussion in this chapter draws on these contradictory practices of commodification set within a flourishing tourism industry. |
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Feasting on friends : Whales, puffins, and tourism in Iceland |
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