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1 online resource |
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 upon consumers of texts. It provides a case-study of neo-colonial exploitation and, conversely, reveals the efficacy of self-representation for tourist consumption, with an increasing number of San offering alternatives to an entrenched ethnic hegemony, effecting gradual political and social recogn. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-243) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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San (African people) -- Botswana.
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San (African people) |
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Botswana. |
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Tourism -- Botswana.
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Tourism. |
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Botswana -- Foreign public opinion.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1443801569 9781443801560 (OCoLC)961008024 |
| ISBN |
1443848808 (electronic book) |
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1443801569 |
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9781443801560 |
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9781443848800 (electronic book) |
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