As a Tourist in Tahiti
An Analysis of Personal Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2366461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Markula (0000-0002-0526-756X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 202-224 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124197026002004 |
| OpenAlex | W2315808266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article evolved from a disappointing holiday I had in Tahiti. First, I present my Tahitian experience in a storied form. Then, after condemning Tahiti as an unworthy leisure resort, I examine my own expectations as a Western woman and trained ethnographer. I discuss how I longed for an exotic, unspoiled, Pacific pleasure paradise in a distant periphery and how I searched for something in Tahiti that I defined as authentic. I discuss how these expectations reflect a stereotypical Western cultural bias toward a binary, hierarchical understanding of the world-a worldview that as an ethnographer, I was consciously trying to avoid. Because I am mainly concerned with issues of self-reflexivity in ethnographic research, this article focuses on the relationship between researcher's Westernness and tourism
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ethnography · Nightlife · Paradise · Pleasure · Reflexivity · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · History · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Combien vaut le bii biêlgee
Researcher journeying and the adventure/danger impulse
Pedagogy as View Sequence
Cultural implications of international volunteer tourism
Resort Workers
Transience and the Postmodern Self
Transience and the Postmodern Self. The Geographic Mobility of Resort Workers
Seasonality and Flexible Labor in Resorts
Māori Culture on Stage
Handbook of qualitative research
How Societies Remember
Tourist
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Capitalist World-Economy
Sociology of Nostalgia
Postmodern tourism
Gringas and otavaleños
Ways of Escape
Tourism as an Anthropological Subject [and Comments and Reply]
The tourist gaze
For love and money
Modernist anthropology and tourism of the authentic
Marketing paradise, making nation
Transformation of self in tourism
Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place
Visions and revisions
The Anthropological Unconscious
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |