Dynamics Behind Persistent Images of "the Other": The Interplay Between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasai Cultural TourismIn tourism, strangers meet face to face. What do Tanzanian Maasai and Western tourists think when they meet? Using a combination of methods that has never been tried in anthropology, or in the field of tourism studies, this work provides novel theoretical insights into the images hosts and guests have of each other, and how their views relate to the interactions they experience. This compelling reflexive study uses video and Q method to contribute to the epistemology of anthropological research in tourism settings, and the construction of a new, more symmetrical anthropology. Dissertation. ***An important contribution to the growing field of the anthropology of tourism, an example of intense and methodical fieldwork, combined with theoretical acumen and deep reflexivity.--Prof. Dr Walter E. A. van Beek (Tilburg U.) (Series: Contributions to African Research / Beitr�¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 76) [Subject: African Studies, Tourism Studies, Anthropology, Sociology] |
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... Maasai ” ( Spear 1997 , 77 ) and in 1900 a formal administration was established in Arusha . During early interactions , whites were seen as ambiguous at best and evil at worst , people who did not know how to behave and threatened ...
... Maasai ” ( Spear 1997 , 77 ) and in 1900 a formal administration was established in Arusha . During early interactions , whites were seen as ambiguous at best and evil at worst , people who did not know how to behave and threatened ...
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... Maasai as pastoralists , noted for drinking cattle blood mixed with milk , a mainstay of their diet .... Tall and ... White Masai ( Hofmann and Millar 2005 ; Huntgeburth 2005 ) .11 The combination of all these media has provided ...
... Maasai as pastoralists , noted for drinking cattle blood mixed with milk , a mainstay of their diet .... Tall and ... White Masai ( Hofmann and Millar 2005 ; Huntgeburth 2005 ) .11 The combination of all these media has provided ...
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... Maasai in mirror fashion, in fact, two cases of peoples with widely divergent cultural and power-political ... whites and manners of dealing with them discussed in this research, is more widely relevant among Maasai. This is ...
... Maasai in mirror fashion, in fact, two cases of peoples with widely divergent cultural and power-political ... whites and manners of dealing with them discussed in this research, is more widely relevant among Maasai. This is ...
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... Maasai experience in Kenya , he got emotional and told me that I had already written everything , so why would I ... whites , even though I have not analysed this data as systematically . Moreover , as my experiences with visitees ...
... Maasai experience in Kenya , he got emotional and told me that I had already written everything , so why would I ... whites , even though I have not analysed this data as systematically . Moreover , as my experiences with visitees ...
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... Maasai working and visiting there, which sometimes led to some tension with the expats, but we never had outspoken ... white guests where served the meat we cooked, even though we had not eaten such good food ourselves for months ...
... Maasai working and visiting there, which sometimes led to some tension with the expats, but we never had outspoken ... white guests where served the meat we cooked, even though we had not eaten such good food ourselves for months ...
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