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 women my age were required to go up to their elders and greet them by bowing their head as children do , I was often approached by the elders offering me a handshake , which is a greeting normally used between adult men and elder ...
... Maasai women my age were required to go up to their elders and greet them by bowing their head as children do , I was often approached by the elders offering me a handshake , which is a greeting normally used between adult men and elder ...
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... Maasai treat me as opposed to their dealings with tourists. The guides, for example, address me not as a white but as a fellow Maasai lady, the difference lying in the words and tone that they use to speak to me, even if I do not always ...
... Maasai treat me as opposed to their dealings with tourists. The guides, for example, address me not as a white but as a fellow Maasai lady, the difference lying in the words and tone that they use to speak to me, even if I do not always ...
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... Maasai ladies and Yosef the guide, which was recorded serendipitously in the background whilst filming the tourists, and I only became aware of during transcriptions. Nalangu: It is necessary for her [Vanessa] to go to the [place of the] ...
... Maasai ladies and Yosef the guide, which was recorded serendipitously in the background whilst filming the tourists, and I only became aware of during transcriptions. Nalangu: It is necessary for her [Vanessa] to go to the [place of the] ...
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