Staging Consumption: The Archaeology of Florida Tourism

Summary

This presentation will provide a review of current archaeological studies of historic resort and hotel sites in Florida. I will discuss insights yielded from these studies that informs on commodities acquisitions, consumption, and social status through the framework of anthropological and sociological perspectives of leisure and tourism. The major research goal of this project is to ascertain the cultural, sociological, and economic forces that have shaped Florida tourism through time by investigating how the state’s early resorts staged socially mediated atmospheres for consumption in the context of accessibility to environmental and market resources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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