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A history of tourism in Africa : exoticization, exploitation, and enrichment / Todd Cleveland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Africa in world historyPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0821447254
  • 9780821447253
  • 0821424335
  • 9780821424339
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A history of tourism in Africa.DDC classification:
  • 338.4791604 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.A26
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities -- Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa -- Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos -- Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa -- Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism -- The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari -- Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through "Roots" Tourism -- Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa.
Summary: "Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent fail to acknowledge or even realize that skilled African artists in the tourist industry repeatedly manufacture "authentic" experiences in order to fulfill foreigners' often delusional, or at least uninformed, expectations. These carefully nurtured and controlled performances typically reinforce tourists' reductive impressions-formed over centuries-of the continent, its peoples, and even its wildlife. In turn, once back in their respective homelands, tourists' accounts of their travels often substantiate, and thereby reinforce, prevailing stereotypes of "exotic" Africa. Meanwhile, Africans' staged performances not only impact their own lives, primarily by generating remunerative opportunities, but also subject the continent's residents to objectification, exoticization, and myriad forms of exploitation"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities -- Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa -- Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos -- Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa -- Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism -- The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari -- Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through "Roots" Tourism -- Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa.

"Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent fail to acknowledge or even realize that skilled African artists in the tourist industry repeatedly manufacture "authentic" experiences in order to fulfill foreigners' often delusional, or at least uninformed, expectations. These carefully nurtured and controlled performances typically reinforce tourists' reductive impressions-formed over centuries-of the continent, its peoples, and even its wildlife. In turn, once back in their respective homelands, tourists' accounts of their travels often substantiate, and thereby reinforce, prevailing stereotypes of "exotic" Africa. Meanwhile, Africans' staged performances not only impact their own lives, primarily by generating remunerative opportunities, but also subject the continent's residents to objectification, exoticization, and myriad forms of exploitation"-- Provided by publisher

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