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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... Maasai warriors. The strong wind has been blowing for weeks and it violently sweeps up the dust that the soft camel feet kick up with every step, throwing it against the thorny trees and bushes that stand scattered in the baking sun ...
... Maasai warriors. The strong wind has been blowing for weeks and it violently sweeps up the dust that the soft camel feet kick up with every step, throwing it against the thorny trees and bushes that stand scattered in the baking sun ...
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The Interplay Between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasai Cultural Tourism Vanessa Wijngaarden. analyse images and stories present . Narrative theory is based on the insight that “ practically everything in culture has a narrative ...
The Interplay Between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasai Cultural Tourism Vanessa Wijngaarden. analyse images and stories present . Narrative theory is based on the insight that “ practically everything in culture has a narrative ...
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... images of pastoralists like , for example , Maasai , which are often used as part of a tourist attraction . He poses that although these images have remained consistent over the past century , viewers ' responses might have changed ...
... images of pastoralists like , for example , Maasai , which are often used as part of a tourist attraction . He poses that although these images have remained consistent over the past century , viewers ' responses might have changed ...
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The Interplay Between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasai Cultural Tourism Vanessa Wijngaarden. Therefore Bruner concludes that “ the larger question raised is , how do the viewers and consumers of popular images actually interpret ...
The Interplay Between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasai Cultural Tourism Vanessa Wijngaarden. Therefore Bruner concludes that “ the larger question raised is , how do the viewers and consumers of popular images actually interpret ...
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... images they feel ' the other ' has of them . Bruner asserts that Maasai , as other ( pastoral ) peoples who are the object of tourism , find themselves in a kind of trap . To the extent that they want a share of the tourist dollar , or ...
... images they feel ' the other ' has of them . Bruner asserts that Maasai , as other ( pastoral ) peoples who are the object of tourism , find themselves in a kind of trap . To the extent that they want a share of the tourist dollar , or ...
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