ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Microsoft Powerpoint, Limonoid, Hajj
4 Dec 2017
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Powerpoint: studying tourism: what motivates people to travel- (grayburn says it"s symbolic inversion-, what happens when we travel- tourist practice at tourist sites. They believed it was a real true maasai experience by dressing them up in traditional clothing. The locals wore western, clothes, used pots and pans, and didn"t have traditional dances as a true form of leisure. They would be fined if they forgot to take their watch off: understanding tourism as a cultural" practice. The cultural analysis of tourism: exploring the culturally defined meanings that tourism holds for the tourist, cultural beliefs and assumptions shape the ways we interpret experience. Nelson graburn symbolic approach (sept18th reading: primary cultural experience sacred journey. ^(metaphorical ideolog, taken by several anthropologists: an experience of the out-of-the-ordinary" that re-creates the self. Three recognized approachs: victor turner (nelson graburn)- his work was taken and applied to tourism. He provides a model for the study of social science.
