The art of the weak

Tourist encounters in East Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID7213896
AuthorsTamás Régi (Keimyung University, South Korea, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume13
Issue1
Pages99-118
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468797613476408
OpenAlexW2105773033
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited32

This article is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork among the semi-nomad Mursi people of South-Western Ethiopia. I have investigated different underlying meanings of local performances for tourist audience. Here, my aim is to demonstrate the need to pay attention to the complexity of these local performances in small-scale African communities. I argue that the different acts that local people put on for their visitors are not cognitively homogeneous performances but carry complex cultural meanings. I propose that anthropological studies of ‘tribal’, ‘cultural’ or ‘ethnic’ tourism should pay more attention to the different tactics that local people apply in order to control tourist consumption and performance

Business · Consumption (sociology · Ethnic group · Geography · Homogeneous · Order (exchange · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

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