Anthropology Flashcards
Definition of anthropology
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)
Selwyns 4 main strands in anthropology of tourism
- The semiology of tourism
- signs and symbols used to signify meaning (eg. Clothes etc)
- Tourisms political economy
- governments, economic agendas, political agendas
- Tourism and social culture change
- macro, micro
- Relationship between
- contemporary tourism
- contemporary knowledge
MacCannell’s way of interpreting issues
Movements of people
- migration
- refugees
- tourism
1. Hybridisation process - mixing of cultures through movement
2. Cultures consume other cultures - created as myths and representations
Cohens way of interpreting issues
Many types of tourists and motivations
Observers
Anthropologists, sociologists, tourism graduates, marketing managers, government employees, shire tourism managers, political players (federal, state, local)
Create history, develop representations
Tourists come from?
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
Tourists seen to maintain this equality
- Tourists imagine, have fantasies
- Tourist industry shapes economies and cultures
- Challenge and resistance by societies and cultures of the periphery - not simply passive