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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... mzungu (meaning 'white person' in Swahili) and asked to buy things, take pictures or give gifts, that I wanted to break down crying. It was not only because I felt unwilling and unable to respond to these expectations and requests, but ...
... mzungu (meaning 'white person' in Swahili) and asked to buy things, take pictures or give gifts, that I wanted to break down crying. It was not only because I felt unwilling and unable to respond to these expectations and requests, but ...
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... mzungu . No ! She is a person belonging to us , it is just the colour which is of a white person .... If somebody will ask us as Maasai people [ who ] are of Encoro here , if somebody will ask us that , why you ... you Vanessa don't ...
... mzungu . No ! She is a person belonging to us , it is just the colour which is of a white person .... If somebody will ask us as Maasai people [ who ] are of Encoro here , if somebody will ask us that , why you ... you Vanessa don't ...
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... mzungu'. I am not sure how this happened because 14 When saying that I am not white any more Nalangu actually uses the Maa word enyokie coming from onyokie, which is also commonly used for light-skinned Maasai, instead of the word oibor ...
... mzungu'. I am not sure how this happened because 14 When saying that I am not white any more Nalangu actually uses the Maa word enyokie coming from onyokie, which is also commonly used for light-skinned Maasai, instead of the word oibor ...
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... mzungu , perhaps not liking the colonial , stereotypical or touristic connotations this invites . In response , Maasai tell whites that they are not mzungus , but that they are Maasai . Loftsdóttir and Amory in similar fashion ...
... mzungu , perhaps not liking the colonial , stereotypical or touristic connotations this invites . In response , Maasai tell whites that they are not mzungus , but that they are Maasai . Loftsdóttir and Amory in similar fashion ...
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