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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... employees at the BIGSAS administration office. I thank Don Goossens and his family for providing a safe haven in ... NGO Rimedio and their workers, who accepted and supported me in Encoro. Without the cooperation of the tourists in ...
... employees at the BIGSAS administration office. I thank Don Goossens and his family for providing a safe haven in ... NGO Rimedio and their workers, who accepted and supported me in Encoro. Without the cooperation of the tourists in ...
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... NGO workers , and myself as a researcher , even though , in order to make a deep analysis possible , my study remains centred on the interaction between hosts and guests . I do not , however , take them as monolithic blocks , but draw ...
... NGO workers , and myself as a researcher , even though , in order to make a deep analysis possible , my study remains centred on the interaction between hosts and guests . I do not , however , take them as monolithic blocks , but draw ...
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... NGO workers and Maasai culture - brokers . Throughout the process I give a voice to my research participants , letting them explain and reflect on their imagery and the interactions they experience . The long quotes and descriptions ...
... NGO workers and Maasai culture - brokers . Throughout the process I give a voice to my research participants , letting them explain and reflect on their imagery and the interactions they experience . The long quotes and descriptions ...
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... NGO workers present . The words and actions chosen by visitors to Tanzanian Maasailand resemble the behaviour and explanations I have collected from a variety of Northern tourists in Kenya and Uganda . By incorporating literature from ...
... NGO workers present . The words and actions chosen by visitors to Tanzanian Maasailand resemble the behaviour and explanations I have collected from a variety of Northern tourists in Kenya and Uganda . By incorporating literature from ...
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... NGO workers in the field I was automatically one of ' their own ' . The challenge of getting extended conversation time with them ( Bruner 1995 , 225 ) was compensated by the quick evolution of the intensity and personal level of our ...
... NGO workers in the field I was automatically one of ' their own ' . The challenge of getting extended conversation time with them ( Bruner 1995 , 225 ) was compensated by the quick evolution of the intensity and personal level of our ...
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