Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, RJ), sobretudo após a desativação (1994) do presídio com o qual esteve identificada por muito tempo, tornou-se um destino turístico muito valorizado e recebe atualmente turistas nacionais e internacionais nas suas diversas praias/comunidades. Entre as variadas possibilidades e formas de turismo que ocorrem nessas diferentes localidades da Ilha, trato aqui do turismo de camping nas vilas do Abraão e do Aventureiro, como uma forma significativa de manifestação do turismo na Ilha Grande. A partir de pesquisa junto aos principais atores sociais envolvidos nessa atividade turística nos dois contextos, mostro: de um lado, o formato, as vivências e as implicações desse tipo de turismo em cada uma das praias; e de outro lado, as percepções referentes às escolhas e estratégias relacionadas ao turismo de camping tanto da parte das populações locais quanto da parte dos visitantes. / Ilha Grande (Angra do Reis, RJ) has become a touristic spot, and its different beaches/communities have been visited by Brazilian as well as international tourists, mainly after the closure (in 1994) of the prison with which the island used to be identified. Amongst the various possibilities and forms of tourism that occur in these different areas of the island I study the camping tourism in the villages of Abraão and Aventureiro, while considering it a significant form of tourism in Ilha Grande. Based on research about the main social actors involved in such touristic activity in both communities, I demonstrate: on the one hand, the format, the living and the implications of such kind of tourism in each one of these communities; and on the other hand, the perceptions related to the choices and strategies as well adopted in relation to camping tourism both by local populations and by visitors.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, RJ), sobretudo após a desativação (1994) do presídio com o qual esteve identificada por muito tempo, tornou-se um destino turístico muito valorizado e recebe atualmente turistas nacionais e internacionais nas suas diversas praias/comunidades. Entre as variadas possibilidades e formas de turismo que ocorrem nessas diferentes localidades da Ilha, trato aqui do turismo de camping nas vilas do Abraão e do Aventureiro, como uma forma significativa de manifestação do turismo na Ilha Grande. A partir de pesquisa junto aos principais atores sociais envolvidos nessa atividade turística nos dois contextos, mostro: de um lado, o formato, as vivências e as implicações desse tipo de turismo em cada uma das praias; e de outro lado, as percepções referentes às escolhas e estratégias relacionadas ao turismo de camping tanto da parte das populações locais quanto da parte dos visitantes. / Ilha Grande (Angra do Reis, RJ) has become a touristic spot, and its different beaches/communities have been visited by Brazilian as well as international tourists, mainly after the closure (in 1994) of the prison with which the island used to be identified. Amongst the various possibilities and forms of tourism that occur in these different areas of the island I study the camping tourism in the villages of Abraão and Aventureiro, while considering it a significant form of tourism in Ilha Grande. Based on research about the main social actors involved in such touristic activity in both communities, I demonstrate: on the one hand, the format, the living and the implications of such kind of tourism in each one of these communities; and on the other hand, the perceptions related to the choices and strategies as well adopted in relation to camping tourism both by local populations and by visitors.

Sabang used to be a small, marginalized Philippine fishing village that in the span of three decades became a well-known international sex tourism site. This thesis deals with the implications of tourism (including sex tourism) and how it has become embedded in the daily life in today’s Sabang. The thesis highlights the local populations’ diverse reactions to the various changes associated with tourism growth, in particular how various symbolic, moral, and spatial boundaries are constructed and maintained. The ethnographic material examined in this thesis builds on several periods of fieldwork, in total 18 months, that were carried out between 2003 and 2015. Analytical tools found in tourism anthropology and in particular the branch of postcolonial tourism studies has guided the discussion and analysis of the socio-cultural effects of becoming a tourism town. This thesis argues that complex networks of boundaries are significant in maintaining a sense of order and social cohesion in times of change. Notions of cultural differences are expressed through the narratives and behaviors of the various inhabitants, and contribute to the maintaining of boundaries within and between groups. From the beginning of tourism growth commercial sex has been central and has become a significant factor in the tourism economy. While residents acknowledge their dependency on the go-go bars, the business of the night is framed so as not to defeat the inhabitants’ struggles to maintain local community’s sense of morality, or at least to set up boundaries between the outsiders’ immorality and insiders’ morality. Tourism has also offered opportunities to challenge conventional social hierarchies and local seats of power, and there are also recurrent discussions about who has the right to control resources and who can claim entitlement to a place now shared by people from all over the world.