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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... Tanzania, an area called Encoro.1 Situated in the rain shadow of the nearby volcano, which silently overlooks the hills made up of its ancient lava flows, the short and long rains here are far less abundant then in neighbouring areas ...
... Tanzania, an area called Encoro.1 Situated in the rain shadow of the nearby volcano, which silently overlooks the hills made up of its ancient lava flows, the short and long rains here are far less abundant then in neighbouring areas ...
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... Tanzania relatively recently , moving south from Sudan during the first millennium CE ( Spear 1993b , 7 ) . They grew sorghum and millet besides holding livestock , the pure pastoral tradition not being the only , and over time not even ...
... Tanzania relatively recently , moving south from Sudan during the first millennium CE ( Spear 1993b , 7 ) . They grew sorghum and millet besides holding livestock , the pure pastoral tradition not being the only , and over time not even ...
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... Tanzania. Nowadays beads are also imported from China and other parts of Asia, but many are still imported from Germany and Czech Republic. The beads the Encoro shop owner, Yakman, sells to the local women when they want to make ...
... Tanzania. Nowadays beads are also imported from China and other parts of Asia, but many are still imported from Germany and Czech Republic. The beads the Encoro shop owner, Yakman, sells to the local women when they want to make ...
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... Tanzania to present Maasai culture using certain markers . Examples are the welcoming of every group of guests with a song that is performed according to a certain choreography , showing the visitors a cow dung house that is only half ...
... Tanzania to present Maasai culture using certain markers . Examples are the welcoming of every group of guests with a song that is performed according to a certain choreography , showing the visitors a cow dung house that is only half ...
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... Tanzania's “ best known tribe " .3 Not surprisingly , tourism is also important in how people redefine their own identity . Picard explains this process as follows : As soon as a society offers itself for sale on a market , as soon as ...
... Tanzania's “ best known tribe " .3 Not surprisingly , tourism is also important in how people redefine their own identity . Picard explains this process as follows : As soon as a society offers itself for sale on a market , as soon as ...
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