Background
Bruner, Edward M. was born on September 28, 1924 in New York City. Son of Milton J. and Bessie (Hinds) Bruner.
( Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia...)
Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not traditional, but instead had been set up specifically for tourists. His efforts to induce reflexivity led to conflict with the tour company, which wanted the displays to be viewed as replicas of culture and to remain unexamined. Although Bruner was eventually fired, the experience became part of a sustained exploration of tourist performances, narratives, and practices. Synthesizing more than twenty years of research in cultural tourism, Culture on Tour analyzes a remarkable variety of tourist productions, ranging from safari excursions in Kenya and dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois. Bruner examines each site in all its particularity, taking account of global and local factors, as well as the multiple perspectives of the various actors—the tourists, the producers, the locals, and even the anthropologist himself. The collection will be essential to those in the field as well as to readers interested in globalization and travel.
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Bruner, Edward M. was born on September 28, 1924 in New York City. Son of Milton J. and Bessie (Hinds) Bruner.
Bachelor of Arts, Ohio State University, 1948; Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1954.
Instructor department anthropology, University of Chicago, 1953-1954;
assistant professor department anthropology, Yale University, 1954-1960;
associate professor department anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1961-1965;
professor, University of Illinois, 1965-1994;
professor emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1994;
head Department, University Illinois, 1966-1970. Director Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project, 1967-1973. Consultant Ford Foundation, National Assessment Education in Indonesia, 1969-1970.
Chairman test committee in anthropology Ednl. Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967-1969. Cons.cultural anthropology review committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1966.
Member grants committee Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1966.
( Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia...)
Fellow American Anthropological Association (representative to American Association for the Advancement of Science 1979-1981, board directors 1989-1991). Member American Ethnological Society (president 1981-1982), Association for Asian Studies (member Indonesian studies committee since 1973, chairman 1976-1978), Society Humanistic Anthropology (president 1989-1991).
Married Elaine C. Hauptman, March 21, 1948. Children– Jane R., Dan M.