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03133aam a2200421 i 4500 001 1D07ACA6C43111EB854196005EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210603010026 008 200813s2021 ohuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020036863 020 $a 0821424335 020 $a 9780821424339 035 $a (OCoLC)1191455753 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d IND $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a G155.A26 $b C54 2021 082 04 $a 338.4791604 $2 23 100 1 $a Cleveland, Todd, $e author. 245 12 $a A history of tourism in Africa : $b exoticization, exploitation, and enrichment / $c Todd Cleveland. 264 1 $a Athens : $b Ohio University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 203 pages : $b illustrations, maps $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Africa in world history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities -- Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa -- Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos -- Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa -- Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism -- The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari -- Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through "Roots" Tourism -- Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa. 520 $a "Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent fail to acknowledge or even realize that skilled African artists in the tourist industry repeatedly manufacture "authentic" experiences in order to fulfill foreigners' often delusional, or at least uninformed, expectations. These carefully nurtured and controlled performances typically reinforce tourists' reductive impressions-formed over centuries-of the continent, its peoples, and even its wildlife. In turn, once back in their respective homelands, tourists' accounts of their travels often substantiate, and thereby reinforce, prevailing stereotypes of "exotic" Africa. Meanwhile, Africans' staged performances not only impact their own lives, primarily by generating remunerative opportunities, but also subject the continent's residents to objectification, exoticization, and myriad forms of exploitation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Tourism $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Culture and tourism $z Africa $x History. 650 7 $a Culture and tourism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885097 650 7 $a Tourism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01153142 651 7 $a Africa $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cleveland, Todd, $t A history of tourism in Africa $d Athens : Ohio University Press, 2021. $z 9780821447253 $w (DLC) 2020036864 830 0 $a Africa in world history 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220202014856.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1D07ACA6C43111EB854196005EECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search