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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... Northern tourism travel (MacCannell 1976; Smith 1989b). Both this desire in Northerners, and their position of wealth, which makes travel possible, can be seen as conse- quences of their (post)colonial interventions in the South ...
... Northern tourism travel (MacCannell 1976; Smith 1989b). Both this desire in Northerners, and their position of wealth, which makes travel possible, can be seen as conse- quences of their (post)colonial interventions in the South ...
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... Northern scientists of what ' the other ' in his true or original form should look like , making clear that stereotypes of the untouched , monolithic and non - modern played a role in scientific anthropological thought and practice ...
... Northern scientists of what ' the other ' in his true or original form should look like , making clear that stereotypes of the untouched , monolithic and non - modern played a role in scientific anthropological thought and practice ...
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... Northern point of view . Being at first mostly critical of tourism , over time anthropologists have also become more willing to seriously scrutinize arguments posed by ex - colonizers and international ( developmental ) organizations ...
... Northern point of view . Being at first mostly critical of tourism , over time anthropologists have also become more willing to seriously scrutinize arguments posed by ex - colonizers and international ( developmental ) organizations ...
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... Northern past. I feel that, although this distinction might have made some sense in the past, it does not do so any more now. In the first place, developments over the past decades have brought increasing numbers of visitors engaging in ...
... Northern past. I feel that, although this distinction might have made some sense in the past, it does not do so any more now. In the first place, developments over the past decades have brought increasing numbers of visitors engaging in ...
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... Northern arts , such as opera , paintings , ballet , and other forms . More recently , Keyser has divided cultural tourism into two types : heritage tourism and ethnic tourism . Following Balcar and Pearce ( 1996 ) she explains that ...
... Northern arts , such as opera , paintings , ballet , and other forms . More recently , Keyser has divided cultural tourism into two types : heritage tourism and ethnic tourism . Following Balcar and Pearce ( 1996 ) she explains that ...
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