Annette M Schmidt

African Hosts and Their Guests

Cultural Dynamics of Tourism
Herausgeber: Beek, Walter E a van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010490
• ISBN-10: 1847010490
• Artikelnr.: 34788324

Autorenporträt

Walter van Beek, Annette Schmidt

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Valene Smith African dynamics of cultural tourism - Walter E A
Van Beek African dynamics of cultural tourism - PART I Culture, Identity &
Tourism - Annette M. Schmidt To dance or not to dance: Dogon masks as a
tourist arena - Walter E A Van Beek Semiotics & the political economy of
tourism in the Sahara - Georg Klute 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of
memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa - Kim C. Warren 'How much for
Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa -
Elizabeth MacGonagle Imitating heritage tourism: a virtual tour of
Sekhukhuneland, South Africa - PART II At the Fringe of the Parks - Ineke
van Kessel Hosts & guests: stereotypes & myths of international tourism in
the Okavango Delta, Botswana - Joseph Mbaiwa Kom 'n bietjie kuier:
Kalahari dreaming with the Khomani San - Kate Finlay and Shanade Barnabas
Treesleeper camp: a case study of community tourism in Tsintsabis, Namibia
- Stasja Koot 'The lion has become a cow': the Maasai hunting paradox -
Vanessa Wijngaarden The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists &
farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - Shirley Brooks The
organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game
farming in South Africa - Marja Spierenburg The organization of hypocrisy?
Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - PART
III Intensive Contact - Harry Wels Backpacking in Africa - Ton van Egmond
'I'm not a tourist. I'm a volunteer': tourism, development & international
volunteerism in Ghana - Eiliadh Swan Becoming 'real African kings &
queens': chieftaincy, culture & tourism in Ghana - Marijke Steegstra Sex
trade & tourism in Kenya: close encounters between the hosts & the hosted -
Wanjohi Kibicho Host-guest encounters in a Gambian 'love' bubble - Lucy
McCombes Afterword. Trouble in the bubble: comparing African tourism with
the Andes trail - Annelou Ypeij