Indigenous Tourism And Authenticity Flashcards

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Indigenous tourism issues

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Who are the indigenous people?
The politics of heritage
World heritage
Issues of authenticity
Issues if commodification
Empowerment or neocolonialism
Cross cultural tourism impacts
Marketing of indigenous tourism
Indigenous cultural property rights
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Waitoc

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West Australian indigenous tour operators committee
Formed in 2000
Practical response
Raise profile of indigenous tourism within the industry

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Notions of authenticity

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Boorstin 1964
MacCannell 1973
Bruner 1994
Wang 1999

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Boorstin 1964

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The pseudo event (image outshines the original)
Commodification if culture
Homogenisation and standardisation of tourist experiences

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MacCannell 1973

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Front and back regions (goffman 1959)
The search for authenticity of experience
Staged authenticity
Desire to recapture our lost lives by submerging ourselves in the authentic experiences of the daily lives of others

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Bruner 1994

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  1. Authentic reproduction
    - giving the appearance of being original (museum)
    - historically accurate
  2. Complete and flawless replication
    - historically genuine and accurate simulation
  3. Original rather than copied
    - no reproduction can be authentic
  4. Authority or legal recognition
    - authorised as real by those in power
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Wang 1999

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Key approaches to discussion of authenticity
1. Etic (looking in from outside)
- objective, objectivism eg. Museums
Constructive, constructivism
2. Emic (insiders perspective)
- post modern
- Existential (intra/interpersonal)

Objective
- criteria based (something either is or isn’t)
Constructive
- socially constructed (points if view, beliefs, perspectives)
- symbolic authenticity derived from images and expectations
Postmodern
- inauthenticity is not the problem posed by boorstin and mac
- emergent authenticity (Disneyland, no original, irrelevant whether setting is real or false)
- notion of protecting original through acceptance of staged settings (eg. Cohens 4 areas: authentic people in authentic environments, authentic people in inauthentic environments, inauthentic people in authentic environments, inauthentic people in inauthentic environments)
Existential
- authenticity it being

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