ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on two areas neglected by those engaged in the academic study of tourism in the United Kingdom. These are the forms of interaction within families whose female members were or continue to be engaged in domestic em ployment in tourism, and the relations between visitors and local women. The article draws on material gathered during a period of anthropological fieldwork carried out in Sennen parish (West Cornwall, UK), between March 1981 and November 1982 (Figure 7.1) to explore these questions. In the intervening period, between the publication of this paper and the completion of the initial fieldwork, contact has been retained with the community.
