Bourbon Street, b-drinking, and the sexual economy of tourism / Angela R. Demovic.

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Combining historic and ethnographic research, Angela R. Demovic reveals the intersection of alcohol sales and stripteasing in the French Quarter. She demonstrates how B-drinkers-workers hired by bar owners to flirt with patrons who buy them drinks-maintain agency and create community in a tourism ec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demovic, Angela R. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society.
Subjects:
Tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Tourism > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Drinking behavior > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Sex industry > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Carnival.
Drinking behavior.
Sex industry.
Tourism.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Physical Description:xvi, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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