Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781782040248
Content:
Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volume deals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenya to Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curator of the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects
Content:
African dynamics of cultural tourism / Walter van Beek & Annette Schmidt -- Part I. Culture, identity & tourism. To dance or not to dance : Dogon masks as a tourist arena / Walter 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 Warren & Elizabeth MacGonagle ; Imitating heritage tourism : a virtual tour of Sekhukhuneland, South Africa / Ineke van Kessel -- Part II. At the fringe of the parks. 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 & 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, Marja Spierenberg & Harry Wels -- Part III. Intensive contact. Backpacking in Africa / Ton van Egmond ; 'I'm not a tourist, I'm a volunteer' : tourism, development & international volunteerism in Ghana / Eileadh Swan ; Becoming 'real African kings & queens' : chieftancy, culture & tourism in Ghana / Marijke Steegstra ; Sex trade & tourism in Kenya : close en counters between the hosts & the hosted / Wanjohi Kibicho ; Host-guest encounters in a Gambia 'love' bubble / Lucy McCombes -- Afterword : trouble in the bubble : comparing African tourism with the Andes trail / Annelou Ypeij
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847010490
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781847010490
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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