Anthropology Flashcards

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Definition of anthropology

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Conscious study of people and their social systems - behaviour and activities, social and cultural practices (dress code, swearing, prayer), experiences, hosts and guests, understanding human subjectivity (intentions and meanings, conscious and unconscious)

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Selwyns 4 main strands in anthropology of tourism

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  1. The semiology of tourism
    • signs and symbols used to signify meaning (eg. Clothes etc)
  2. Tourisms political economy
    • governments, economic agendas, political agendas
  3. Tourism and social culture change
    • macro, micro
  4. Relationship between
    • contemporary tourism
    • contemporary knowledge
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MacCannell’s way of interpreting issues

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Movements of people

  • migration
  • refugees
  • tourism
    1. Hybridisation process - mixing of cultures through movement
    2. Cultures consume other cultures - created as myths and representations
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Cohens way of interpreting issues

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Many types of tourists and motivations

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Observers

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Anthropologists, sociologists, tourism graduates, marketing managers, government employees, shire tourism managers, political players (federal, state, local)

Create history, develop representations

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Tourists come from?

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The centre (rich, developed urbanised countries)
The elites of the peripheries (less developed rural, ex-colonial possessions)
The ‘west’ as opposed to the eastern “elites” in Canberra, Sydney Ned Melbourne
Inequality, creation of dependency

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Tourists seen to maintain this equality

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  1. Tourists imagine, have fantasies
  2. Tourist industry shapes economies and cultures
  3. Challenge and resistance by societies and cultures of the periphery - not simply passive
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