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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... guests and hosts. In no way could the guests expect to reciprocate the visit, as in no way were the visited populations on a par with the tourists, in terms of money and power. They are still not. That conundrum brought the first major ...
... guests and hosts. In no way could the guests expect to reciprocate the visit, as in no way were the visited populations on a par with the tourists, in terms of money and power. They are still not. That conundrum brought the first major ...
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... guests do meet, and people of very different cultures and situations meet in the flesh, see eye to eye, hear and smell each other. Now, what really happens in this encounter? And, specifically, viewing the old expectation of tourism as ...
... guests do meet, and people of very different cultures and situations meet in the flesh, see eye to eye, hear and smell each other. Now, what really happens in this encounter? And, specifically, viewing the old expectation of tourism as ...
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... guests. Dynamics of cultural tourism in Africa. Oxford: Currey, 37-57. Beek, W.E.A. van & Annette Schmidt. 2012. African dynamics of cultural tourism. In: W.E.A. van Beek & A. Schmidt (eds), African hosts and their guests. Dynamics of ...
... guests. Dynamics of cultural tourism in Africa. Oxford: Currey, 37-57. Beek, W.E.A. van & Annette Schmidt. 2012. African dynamics of cultural tourism. In: W.E.A. van Beek & A. Schmidt (eds), African hosts and their guests. Dynamics of ...
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... guests . On the other hand , anthropologists like Dennison Nash wished to assess the range of empirical political and economic effects tourism has upon host societies and their sociocultural systems ( Lett 1989 ) . Both published ...
... guests . On the other hand , anthropologists like Dennison Nash wished to assess the range of empirical political and economic effects tourism has upon host societies and their sociocultural systems ( Lett 1989 ) . Both published ...
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... guests “ do not take seriously the Western fantasy of the primitive [ and ] untouched " ( Bruner 2002 , 390 ) . Although to them , “ the construct- edness of the image and the story becomes transparent ” ( Bruner 2002 , 390 ) , the ...
... guests “ do not take seriously the Western fantasy of the primitive [ and ] untouched " ( Bruner 2002 , 390 ) . Although to them , “ the construct- edness of the image and the story becomes transparent ” ( Bruner 2002 , 390 ) , the ...
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