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Bushmen in the Tourist Imaginary.
This book is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent specific groups of San (or Bushmen) in modern Botswana, and is framed by postcolonial theory, post-tourism and resistance theories. Critically, the book demonstrates the power that both written and visual language can have...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Image Credits; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Where I stand; Context; Significance of the work; Structure of the book; Chapter One; The San's social and economic position in modern Botswana; History as it affects the present for the Botswana San; High Court ruling and its aftermath; Tourism boycott campaign; Education and the San; The Western researcher investigating Indigenous contexts; Chapter Two; Review of Literature; Theoretical framework; Methodology; Chapter Three; The San as children; The San as hyper-real / commodity
- The San as "less than"The San as victim; The San as doomed race; Chapter Four; Photography; Arts and Crafts; Visual representations in tourism literature; The trance dance; The cinematic San; Chapter Five; Resistance theory; Target audience: Defining political tourists; Resistance strategies; Conclusion; Re-enframing; A final word; References; Glossary; Index