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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... result , I sometimes use the verb imagine to refer to the action of creating images . This is not to judge the created image as being ' untrue ' or in disagreement with my own interpretations , but to foster the awareness that all ...
... result , I sometimes use the verb imagine to refer to the action of creating images . This is not to judge the created image as being ' untrue ' or in disagreement with my own interpretations , but to foster the awareness that all ...
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... result of the desire to understand the colonial encounter , its focus lay primarily on grasping ' the other ' , and the interaction between people from the North and the South has long been largely omitted in anthropological research ...
... result of the desire to understand the colonial encounter , its focus lay primarily on grasping ' the other ' , and the interaction between people from the North and the South has long been largely omitted in anthropological research ...
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... result of the present - day dynamism of their cultural expressions , which prevail not despite the interaction with global forces , but as conceived in interplay with them ( Vidas 1995 ) . Concerning Bali , Picard concludes that ...
... result of the present - day dynamism of their cultural expressions , which prevail not despite the interaction with global forces , but as conceived in interplay with them ( Vidas 1995 ) . Concerning Bali , Picard concludes that ...
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... result , when African locals commodify parts of ( the existing images of ) their culture as an object of ( cultural ) tourism , they strategically make use of the images they have learned tourists have of them , and which generally ...
... result , when African locals commodify parts of ( the existing images of ) their culture as an object of ( cultural ) tourism , they strategically make use of the images they have learned tourists have of them , and which generally ...
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... result of ( repeated ) contact , I took into account ideas of those who have not made previous contact at all as well as those who have had repeated or extended contact . I want to do justice to the agency of both hosts and guests ...
... result of ( repeated ) contact , I took into account ideas of those who have not made previous contact at all as well as those who have had repeated or extended contact . I want to do justice to the agency of both hosts and guests ...
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