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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... 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 theoretical ...
... 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 theoretical ...
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... host visitors, to make their travel, stay and well-being possible (van Beek & Schmidt 2012), and it comes in two ... hosts. What do they get out of it? We have now learned that those cultures are not wiped out by tourism, thanks to ...
... host visitors, to make their travel, stay and well-being possible (van Beek & Schmidt 2012), and it comes in two ... hosts. What do they get out of it? We have now learned that those cultures are not wiped out by tourism, thanks to ...
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... hosts as well as that of the guests. The host culture in this case is that of the Maasai pastoralists, famous for many reasons, not least the fact that they seem to be unchanged. In the view of the visiting traveler, they are 'authentic ...
... hosts as well as that of the guests. The host culture in this case is that of the Maasai pastoralists, famous for many reasons, not least the fact that they seem to be unchanged. In the view of the visiting traveler, they are 'authentic ...
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... hosts and their 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 ...
... hosts and their 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 ...
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... hosts. These examples show how people in Europe and in Africa are often living different sides of the same global realities, and as the contact between the continents has been long and deep, they have in fact been influenced by each ...
... hosts. These examples show how people in Europe and in Africa are often living different sides of the same global realities, and as the contact between the continents has been long and deep, they have in fact been influenced by each ...
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