African hosts and their guests: cultural dynamics of tourism
| Statement of responsibility: | ed. by Walter van Beek and Annette Schmidt |
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| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Currey,
2012
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| Physical Description: | XI, 340 S. : Ill. ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781847010490 ((hbk.) £50.00) ; 1847010490 ((hbk.) £50.00) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.