Anthropology 2272F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Noble Savage, Pastoralism, Title 47 Cfr Part 15
9 May 2020
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Maasai on the lawn: tourist realism in east africa. Many say that tourism gives tribalism and colonialism a second life, by giving them a outsiders will pay to see). Mass tourism routinely recycles dying industries, dead sites, past colonial relations, and abandoned ethnographic tropes to produce tourist attractions. Mass tourism caters to the imagination of others by producing fantasy through attractions, and blurring the distinction between what is real (ex. historical sites) vs was is not (ex. hermetic theme parks) Tourist attractions are a production itineraries, environments, performances, and. Who profits from what: what does the event say and what does it mean to its varied producers and audiences? (keep in mid, the producers, maasai, and audience will experience the event in different ways) This journal article argues that paying close attention to the tourist production itself-to the performance-holds clues to the nature of mayers ranch as a tourist commodity and to its success within kenya"s tourism industry.
