African Hosts and Their Guests

Cultural Dynamics of Tourism
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84701-049-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 926 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt, Annette M

Schmidt, Annette

Beek, Walter E a van

van Beek, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Foreword
2 African dynamics of cultural tourism
3 African dynamics of cultural tourism - PART I Culture, Identity & Tourism
4 To dance or not to dance: Dogon masks as a tourist arena
5 Semiotics & the political economy of tourism in the Sahara
6 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa
7 Imitating heritage tourism: a virtual tour of Sekhukhuneland, South Africa - PART II At the Fringe of the Parks
8 Hosts & guests: stereotypes & myths of international tourism in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
9 Kom 'n bietjie kuier: Kalahari dreaming with the Khomani San
10 Treesleeper camp: a case study of community tourism in Tsintsabis, Namibia
11 'The lion has become a cow': the Maasai hunting paradox
12 The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa
13 The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - PART III Intensive Contact
14 Backpacking in Africa
15 'I'm not a tourist. I'm a volunteer': tourism, development & international volunteerism in Ghana
16 Becoming 'real African kings & queens': chieftaincy, culture & tourism in Ghana
17 Sex trade & tourism in Kenya: close encounters between the hosts & the hosted
18 Host-guest encounters in a Gambian 'love' bubble
19 Afterword. Trouble in the bubble: comparing African tourism with the Andes trail

Über Autor(innen)

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.