Culture, Tourism, Travel, Geography, Design, Etnology, Semiotics

A PRODUÇÃO DA ALTERIDADE: O TORÉ E AS CONVERSÕES MISSIONÁRIAS E INDÍGENAS

by José Maurício Arruti

Em: Paula Motero. (Org.). Deus na aldeia - missionários, índios e mediação cultural. São Paulo: Globo, 2006, v. 1, p. 381-426

Poucos colocarão em causa o papel fundamental que a igreja católica desempenhou nas etnogêneses indígenas ocorridas no... more Poucos colocarão em causa o papel fundamental que a igreja católica desempenhou nas etnogêneses indígenas ocorridas no Nordeste brasileiro ao longo de todo o século XX – e que se prolongam pelo século XXI. Apesar disso, tal papel ainda não foi matéria de análise sistemática nem dos antropólogos interessados nos grupos indígenas da região, nem dos pesquisadores voltados ao estudo da atuação das missões cristãs em áreas indígenas. Este artigo busca preencher essa lacuna, sustentado na hipótese de que essa desatenção deve-se à forma problemática pela qual tal relação (missionário-indígena) neste contexto (nordestino) nos apresenta a questão da alteridade. Em diálogo com uma concepção do empreendimento missionário que o toma como processo, menos que como oposição entre entidades abstratas, investimos sobre três planos ou vieses do tema da produção da alteridade: a produção do outro pelos missionários, a produção do outro pelos nativos e, finalmente, a produção do outro pela antropologia nesse contexto de interação entre missionários e indígenas, inevitavelmente informada pelas concepções elaboradas e postas em circulação por nesta interação.

Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies (2009)

by Naomi Leite

in The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies, ed. Mike Robinson and Tazim Jamal. London: Sage, pp. 35-64, 2009 (first author, with Nelson Graburn).

A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future... more A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future research. Written for the interdisciplinary Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies.

Stuedahl, D. 2007. Convergence, Museums and Digital Cultural Heritage. In Storsul and Stuedahl (eds): The Ambivalence of Convergence, NORDICOM Gothenborg

by dagny stuedahl

Phung, P., and Buhalis, D., 2011, Buhalis, D., Travel Enjoyment and Website Sensory Features,

by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis

Phung, P., and Buhalis, D.,  2011, Buhalis, D., Travel Enjoyment and Website Sensory Features,  in Law, R., Fuchs, M., Ricci, F., (eds), ENTER 2011 Proceedings, Innsbruck, Springer-Verlag, Wien, ISBN: 9783709105023, pp.599-610.

Travel Enjoyment and Website Sensory Features

Phuong Phung, and Dimitrios Buhalis
School of... more Travel Enjoyment and Website Sensory Features

Phuong Phung, and Dimitrios Buhalis
School of Tourism,
Bournemouth University, UK


Abstract
With the enhancement of Information Communication Technologies tourism websites increasingly have the potential to create a greater impact on the experience and behaviour of
web users. Though sensory experiences play an important role in structuring tourism experience, the sensory dimensions of experiences remain largely unrecognised, underresearched
and under-applied in tourism marketing. The aim of this research is to discover whether sensory descriptions of tourism websites affect web surfers' enjoyment, which in turn should enhance the quality of trial experience of tourism products, shape xpectations and alter behaviour of potential travellers. In order to establish a conceptual framework for the study, a comprehensive literature review was undertaken in experience construct, the potential of experiential marketing and the important role of sensory elements. The focus of the study is on the significance of ICTs in enhancing the experience in cyberspace of consumers. This
conceptual model is followed by a Web-based experiment and a qualitative exploratory study.
The findings show that sensory descriptions have strong impacts on emotions and virtual experience of the web surfer and, as a result, influence feelings, attitudes about the destination and impacts consumers' behaviour.

Keywords: Sensory descriptions, experience, information search, website, e-marketing

Guide To Bangkok

by Sam Thompson

The State Tower is one of the most amazing places you can have a drink/dinner in Bangkok. It’s a huge apartment/office... more The State Tower is one of the most amazing places you can have a drink/dinner in Bangkok. It’s a huge apartment/office block with a few restaurants and bars on top. The view is amazing and its great venue to enjoy the sights of the city. I highly recommend a visit.

Non-human agency, radical ontology and tourism realities

by Carina Ren

Published in Annals of Tourism Research 2011

Using insights from actor-network theory, this article introduces the notions of non-human agency and radical ontology... more Using insights from actor-network theory, this article introduces the notions of non-human agency and radical ontology to the realm of tourism research. Drawing from fieldwork at a Polish tourist destination, the article demonstrates how a rather unlikely destination actor, the oscypek cheese, is enacted in different versions as it engages with tourism, tradition, craftsmanship, hygiene and legislation. It is described how four versions of the
cheese impact the destination by producing, shaping and altering destination realities and how reality-shaping requirements, possibilities and controversies are constantly negotiated
and altered through the linkage of multiple actors, discourses and practices. It is argued that actor-network theory may help to elucidate this working of non-human actors and the subsequent
enactment of multiple tourism realities. Keywords: Actor-network theory, non-human actors, radical ontology, enactment.

The cinematic tourist: explorations in globalization, culture and resistance

by Rodanthi Tzanelli

Itineraries for a republic: Tourism and travel culture in modern China, 1866--1954

by Yajun Mo

Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and the everday ontology of space and place in interview talk

by William Housley

Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and
the everyday ontology of space and place in interview talk

William Housley, Cardiff University, UK

Robin James Smith, Cardiff University, UK

Qualitative Research
11(6) 698– 715
© The Author(s) 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/1468794111415960
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Abstract
In this article we aim to utilise and apply ethnomethodological and interactionist principles to the... more Abstract
In this article we aim to utilise and apply ethnomethodological and interactionist principles to the analysis of members’ situated accounts of regenerated urban space. With reference to previous empirical studies we apply membership categorization analysis and the concept of mundane
reason to data gathered from situated street level interviews carried out as part of a programme of ethnographic research into the regenerated setting of Cardiff Bay. The article demonstrates that these data yield sociological insight into social actors’ interpretive and interactional reasoning in relation to the negotiation, navigation and comprehension of space and place. Through this
work the patterned signatures of the urban interactional order can be identified. Furthermore, we illustrate the forms of emic rationality associated with the everyday and ubiquitous constitution of urban space as a meaningful, and thence cultural, milieu. It is our claim that an appreciation of
these urban forms of reasoning is important in the ethnographic, sociological and geographical analysis of space and place.

Keywords
Cardiff Bay, commonsense geography, membership categorization analysis, mundane reason,place, regeneration, space

Translations of Europe: Living ‘Paris’ and ‘Venice’ Vicariously in Las Vegas

by Helen Wood

Please contact Helen for more information about this paper

This paper examines the ways Las Vegas presents and revises ideas about ‘Paris’ and ‘Venice’ in the two major... more This paper examines the ways Las Vegas presents and revises ideas about ‘Paris’ and ‘Venice’ in the two major hotel-resorts, Paris Las Vegas and The Venetian. We could say that both hotels offer thematic representations of famous European cities in response to a growing global market for ‘experiences’ rather than physical commodities (following what many critics, such as sociologist John Hannigan for example, refer to as the ‘Disney Model’). However, in saying as much, we should also question the emergence and, indeed, popularity of this most spectacular form of recreation. To what extent, for instance, do these settings mirror American perceptual conventions about the rest of the world rather than they authentically re-create their namesakes? My paper considers the effects of this kind of inter-continental interaction, positioning Las Vegas’ ‘Paris’ and ‘Venice’ as symbols or monuments of what could be thought of as an invasive American gaze. In a kind of reverse colonisation, then, these intensely idealised spaces seem like attempts to transport American culture and ideas back into the Old World. It will also be interesting to consider in some detail whether Paris Las Vegas and The Venetian speak to a collective American unwillingness to engage with the cities of Europe on their own terms (and if they represent instead, a kind of ‘user-friendly’ Europe without the inconvenience of transnational flights or language barriers); or whether these representations of place work to recede the space separating our two continents, thereby blurring cultural boundaries in what might be a mutually-dependent, reciprocal relationship.

Dom kulejących aniołów - Miejsce In spe | "The House of Limping Angels - the Place in spe"

by Zuzanna Wiśnicka-Tomalak

Language: Polish

Dom Kulejących Aniołów

Słowo "dom" dla człowieka może mieć bardzo różne znaczenie. Będąc częścią... more Dom Kulejących Aniołów

Słowo "dom" dla człowieka może mieć bardzo różne znaczenie. Będąc częścią zespołu ludzi, zastanawiających się podczas ćwiczeń terenowych nad tym, jak szerokie są jego ramy szukaliśmy różnych "domów", "miejsc", "sposobów zamieszkiwania". Ja trafiłam do Domu, który jeszcze nie istnieje realnie (przynajmniej w 2011 roku), ale który już istnieje w świadomości osób zaangażowanych w jego tworzenie. Jest to Dom wyjątkowy - Dom Kulejących Aniołów. Miejsce in spe ważne dla tak wielu ludzi, którego przyszli mieszkańcy są bardzo wyjątkowi, którego historia jest ujmująca. Prezentuję w formie swoistego reportażu wyniki badań, rozmów i obserwacji, w których usiłowałam dowiedzieć się jakie jest znaczenie tego Domu dla jego twórców i przyszłych mieszkańców, latem 2011 roku.

Hospitality, Culture and Regeneration: Urban Decay, Entrepreneurship and the" Ruin" Bars of Budapest

by Peter Lugosi

This paper was published as: Lugosi, P., Bell, D. and Lugosi, K., 2010. Hospitality, Culture and Regeneration: Urban decay, entrepreneurship and the "ruin" bars of Budapest. Urban Studies, Vol. 47, No. 14, pp. 3079-3101.

This paper considers the relationships between hospitality, culture and urban regeneration through an examination of... more This paper considers the relationships between hospitality, culture and urban regeneration through an examination of rom (ruin) venues, which operate in dilapidated buildings in Budapest, Hungary. The paper reviews previous work on culture and urban regeneration in order to locate the role of hospitality within emerging debates. It subsequently interrogates the evolution of the rom phenomenon and demonstrates how, in this context, hospitality thrives because of social and physical decay in urban locations, how operators and entrepreneurs exploit conflicts among various actors involved in regeneration, and how hospitality may be mobilised purposefully in the regeneration process. The paper demonstrates how networked entrepreneurship maintains these operations and how various forms of cultural production are entangled and mobilised in the venues’ hospitality propositions.

A Survey of the Tujia Nationality Culture in the Early Qing Dynasty from the Travel Notes of Rongmei

by Nan Chen

Co-authored with Associate Professor Yang Wei;
It was published in both Academic Journal of Hubei University (Philosophy and Social Science) and Chinese Culture Monthly (Taiwan) in 2006. 

Distant Encounters: Travel Literature and the Shifting Image of the Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia

by Kathleen Adams

Published in Terrae Incognitae 1991 Vol 23:91-92.

The perceptions of all those writing about ethnographic Others have invariable been colored by earlier texts. Long... more The perceptions of all those writing about ethnographic Others have invariable been colored by earlier texts. Long before we encounter other peoples face-to-face, our sensitivities have been shaped by the ethnographic imagery of explorers' accounts, sea captains' logs, travellers' tales and touristic brochures. Travel literature, as a genre, is rich in ethnographic imagery. Until recently, its role in shaping our own perceptions has been largely overlooked. This article critically examines the shifting portrayal of the Toraja of South Sualwesi (previously Celebes), Indonesia, delineating changes in the predominant imagery of Torajas (from 19th century travellers' images of "savage headhunters" to early 20th century colonial Dutch depictions of them as "gentle children," closing with an examination of Torajas' representation as "heavenly kings" in today's tourism literature. While these characterizations are not monolithic (at any given time there are multiple images) certain images are more prevalent than others. I argue that changes in the dominant imagery are neither arbitrary nor whimsical. Rather, the various dominant images in these different historical eras are linked to the specific missions of the early explorers, colonial administration and, later, the Indonesian state. Ultimately, the article suggests that these varied images serve to encourage and justify the imposition of new orders (e.g. colonialism, Christianity).

Il senso delle immagini, il valore della rappresentazione

by Giulia de Spuches

in Terra di Sicilia, Roma, Società Geografica Italiana, 2009, pp. 87-107