A Trip to the Mountains: Travel and Social Relations in the Catskill Mountains of New York
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- 作者：Maria O鈥橠onovan (1) odonovan@binghamton.edu
- 关键词：Tourism – ; Catskill Mountains – ; New York – ; Jewish immigrants
- 刊名：International Journal of Historical Archaeology
- 出版时间：June 2011
- 出版年：2011
- 期刊代码：90_1092-7697
- 类别：soc
- 卷：15
- 期：2
- 页码：267-278
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
The Catskill Mountains in upstate New York have been a tourist destination since the early nineteenth century. At a superficial level, the history of Catskill tourism follows a basic trajectory from elite destination in the nineteenth century to more inclusive tourist area in the twentieth century. This trajectory incorporates a “trickle down” theory of tourism and leisure that masks the complexity of changes in social relations. Jewish tourism in the Catskills evidences how class, ethnic, and gender relations intertwined in the creation of a specific place—the Borscht Belt. Archaeology in the Borscht Belt places tourism within larger capitalist relations in America and complicates concepts of tourism as consumption and leisure.