BIBFRAME Work

Title

Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Pollock, Tiffany Rae (author)

Subject

• Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts--Social aspects--Thailand (LCSH)
• Tourism and the arts--Social aspects--Thailand (LCSH)
• Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts--Economic aspects--Thailand (LCSH)
• Fire twirling--Social aspects--Thailand (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 331.7/6191593 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: G155.T5 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"An ethnography of fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry that highlights how dancers employ affect to fulfill tourists' imaginaries and to negotiate the precarity and possibilities of touristic labor. Tracing affect through performance and everyday life, the book examines how dancers reimagine their labor and lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Transforming fire dance surfaces -- The energy of artists -- Feeling art and the labor of sharing -- The affinitive labor of freedom -- The everyday comfort of practice -- Striving on Koh Phi Phi -- Fire dance femininities -- Feeling together.

Authorized Access Point

Pollock, Tiffany Rae. Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry

Geographic Coverage

• Thailand

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:37.483913+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23365812

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc