Anthropology 2272F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Eastern Nilotic Languages, Rinderpest, Pastoralism
14 Apr 2020
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Mayers ranch is a tourist attraction near nairobi that is privately owned by a british ex-colonial family, the mayers, and it features maasai tribal dancing. The site enacts colonial drama of the savage maasai and the genteel british. It plays upon the contrast between the wild and the civilized in the colonial discourse and is sustained in east african tourism. Tourism gives tribalism and colonial a second life by bringing them back as representations of themselves and circulating them within an economy of performance. Catering to the imagination of others mass tourism stages fantasy not only within hermetic theme parks located anywhere, but also within geographically specific historical sites and life worlds. Imperialist nostalgia it is a scenario for tourist productions and the marketing of them. Dean maccannell"s view: consists of a sociology of leisure and an ethnography of modernity frame where the crisis of modernity, as seen through tourism, in terms of authenticity.
