Stalking the cannibals
Photographic behaviour on the Sepik River
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Palmer (0000-0002-4680-6558, University of Brighton, corresponding author), Jo-Anne Lester (University of Brighton), Jo‐anne Lester (0000-0003-0723-0549, University of Brighton) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-106 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468797607079806 |
| OpenAlex | W2025206871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 26 |
Outwardly Dennis O'Rourke's film, Cannibal Tours, is just another travel documentary, but to categorize it thus is to misunderstand its significance. `Straight' readings of the film present it as an example of the negative impacts of tourism or as a commentary on touristic encounters with the exotic. We part company from such readings because they largely ignore the filmmaker's art, the role of O'Rourke in constructing the film's narrative. O'Rourke employs the ubiquitous camera to present his critique of a western mindset that continues to be fascinated by the primitive Other. Our discussion focuses on both the filmmaker's art and the lure of the primitive as an oneiric exercise for western tourists. Specifically, we explore the role of the camera in constructing the relationship between modernity and the pre-modern Other. Overall, then, this discussion represents a journey through the mind of O'Rourke, a journey into his framing of tourism
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Categorization · Criminology · Epistemology · Film director · Literature · Media studies · Mindset · Modernity · Movie theater · Narrative · Sociology · Stalking · Tourism · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
FromCannibal Toursto cargo cult
A Phenomenological Analysis of Tourist Identity
Situating the tourist gaze
The Potential of Arts-Based Transformative Research
The Photographed Other
A Photo Ethnography of Tourism as Neo-Colonialism
Researcher journeying and the adventure/danger impulse
The Ethics of Tourist Photography
Film-Induced Tourism
Visual Methods in Social Research
Empty Meeting Grounds
The Order of Things
Road to authenticity and stability
Oh, the Places They'll Go! Mobility, Place and Landscape in the Film This is Nowhere
The Quick and the Dead
Toward a critical analysis of tourism representations
Traveling the world
Culture and the Ad
Mythic Geographies of Representation and Identity
Geography, Experience, and Imagination
Families Seen Sightseeing
Picturing practices
Constructing the 'cinematic tourist
Relations between Strangers
Of Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers
Excuse Me, Everything Is Not All Right
An urban tour
Revealing the Unseen
Anthropology in the 'Savage Slot
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |