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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... visitors to Africa, the wide, open and unstructured African savannah has similar characteristics, a maximal contrast with normal everyday life in Europe. The sheer vastness of African savannah, with sparse and intermittent vegetation ...
... visitors to Africa, the wide, open and unstructured African savannah has similar characteristics, a maximal contrast with normal everyday life in Europe. The sheer vastness of African savannah, with sparse and intermittent vegetation ...
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... visitors, to make their travel, stay and well-being possible (van Beek & Schmidt 2012), and it comes in two halves. The first is the sending bubble: the tour organizations, ticket offices, travel organizations and, these days, the ...
... visitors, to make their travel, stay and well-being possible (van Beek & Schmidt 2012), and it comes in two halves. The first is the sending bubble: the tour organizations, ticket offices, travel organizations and, these days, the ...
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... visitors feel shy to enter the privacy of the home , but this is what they came for . One by one they bend over to fit through the low entrance , struggling to orient themselves in the dark . In these small Encoro bomas , which are not ...
... visitors feel shy to enter the privacy of the home , but this is what they came for . One by one they bend over to fit through the low entrance , struggling to orient themselves in the dark . In these small Encoro bomas , which are not ...
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... visitors are less concerned with authenticity than with seeing a good show .... Their enjoyment of the experience is more important than the accuracy of the representation . They do realize that what is being shown to them in images and ...
... visitors are less concerned with authenticity than with seeing a good show .... Their enjoyment of the experience is more important than the accuracy of the representation . They do realize that what is being shown to them in images and ...
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... visitors and visitees alike (Edensor 2009). I am not interested in finding overarching reasons behind all tourist and host activities, but want to gain insight into how meaning is being created through these activities by tourists and ...
... visitors and visitees alike (Edensor 2009). I am not interested in finding overarching reasons behind all tourist and host activities, but want to gain insight into how meaning is being created through these activities by tourists and ...
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