Cultural Tourism and Identity
Rethinking Indigeneity
Edited by Keyan G. Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Biographical note
Keyan G. Tomaselli is Director of The Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He has been working on the topic indigeneity and cultural tourism for 17 years. He is editor of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies
Readership
This book will appeal to tourism researchers, anthropologists, development agents, sociologists, methodologists, literary scholars and even advertising practitioners.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Acronyms xi
What Is This Book About? xiii
1 “ Die Geld is Op” – Storytelling, Business and Development Strategies 1
Keyan G. Tomaselli
2 Making Sense of the Indigenous: Who’s Looking at Whom? 17
Keyan G. Tomaselli
3 Research Phases: What Have We Been Doing? 29
Keyan G. Tomaselli
4 Research, Method and Position: What Are We Doing? 53
Nyasha Mboti
5 Shifting Representations of the Bushmen 71
Kate Finlay and Shanade Barnabas
6 Intercultural Encounters: The Kalahari and The Zulu 85
Alexandra von Stauss
7 Staging Authenticity Via Cultural Tourism: A Visitation of Spirits 99
Jeffrey Sehume
8 Place, Representation and Myth 109
Keyan G. Tomaselli
9 Action (Marketing) Research and Paradigms in Partnership: A Critical Analysis of !Xaus Lodge 119
Lauren Dyll-Myklebust and Kate Finlay
10 Why is our Voice Not Being Heard by Developers? Development as Empowerment 137
Vanessa McLennan-Dodd and Shanade Barnabas
11 Developmental and Cultural Conceptions – A Matter of Injustice 147
Brilliant Mhlanga
12 The !Xaus Lodge Experience: Matters Arising 163
Keyan G. Tomaselli
13 Public-Private-Community Partnership Model for Participatory Lodge (Tourism) Development 179
Lauren Dyll-Myklebust
Notes on Authors 215
References 217
Index 233
Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Acronyms xi
What Is This Book About? xiii
1 “ Die Geld is Op” – Storytelling, Business and Development Strategies 1
Keyan G. Tomaselli
2 Making Sense of the Indigenous: Who’s Looking at Whom? 17
Keyan G. Tomaselli
3 Research Phases: What Have We Been Doing? 29
Keyan G. Tomaselli
4 Research, Method and Position: What Are We Doing? 53
Nyasha Mboti
5 Shifting Representations of the Bushmen 71
Kate Finlay and Shanade Barnabas
6 Intercultural Encounters: The Kalahari and The Zulu 85
Alexandra von Stauss
7 Staging Authenticity Via Cultural Tourism: A Visitation of Spirits 99
Jeffrey Sehume
8 Place, Representation and Myth 109
Keyan G. Tomaselli
9 Action (Marketing) Research and Paradigms in Partnership: A Critical Analysis of !Xaus Lodge 119
Lauren Dyll-Myklebust and Kate Finlay
10 Why is our Voice Not Being Heard by Developers? Development as Empowerment 137
Vanessa McLennan-Dodd and Shanade Barnabas
11 Developmental and Cultural Conceptions – A Matter of Injustice 147
Brilliant Mhlanga
12 The !Xaus Lodge Experience: Matters Arising 163
Keyan G. Tomaselli
13 Public-Private-Community Partnership Model for Participatory Lodge (Tourism) Development 179
Lauren Dyll-Myklebust
Notes on Authors 215
References 217
Index 233
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