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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... 'the other' 287 Chapter 6 Image dynamics 357 Chapter 7 Anthropologists and 'the other' 455 Chapter 8 Conclusion 482 Afterthought Appendix Bibliography 509 513 515 Foreword Walter E. A. van Beek Tourism is an old Content.
... 'the other' 287 Chapter 6 Image dynamics 357 Chapter 7 Anthropologists and 'the other' 455 Chapter 8 Conclusion 482 Afterthought Appendix Bibliography 509 513 515 Foreword Walter E. A. van Beek Tourism is an old Content.
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... Anthropologists followed their exotic hearts and studied the 'rim people', or they used models from anthropology to understand the tourist experience. One emotional conundrum for anthropologists was and still is the lack of reciprocity ...
... Anthropologists followed their exotic hearts and studied the 'rim people', or they used models from anthropology to understand the tourist experience. One emotional conundrum for anthropologists was and still is the lack of reciprocity ...
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... anthropologist and scientists in general as story - producing actors , which are part of the dynamic constellation . Unless indicated otherwise , when I speak of images , I always mean mental images , which are perceptions that are only ...
... anthropologist and scientists in general as story - producing actors , which are part of the dynamic constellation . Unless indicated otherwise , when I speak of images , I always mean mental images , which are perceptions that are only ...
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... anthropologists as well as researchers in other humanities approached ' the other ' , which I will discuss in more detail in the next chapter . Although it took time for studies in the subject of tourism to be taken seriously and ...
... anthropologists as well as researchers in other humanities approached ' the other ' , which I will discuss in more detail in the next chapter . Although it took time for studies in the subject of tourism to be taken seriously and ...
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... anthropologists find that tourists are almost always present in their field sites , they are still often ignored by researchers who are not focusing on tourism specifically . Although " anthropologists are still prone to producing ...
... anthropologists find that tourists are almost always present in their field sites , they are still often ignored by researchers who are not focusing on tourism specifically . Although " anthropologists are still prone to producing ...
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