Essays about: "cultural exoticism"
Found 4 essays containing the words cultural exoticism.
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1. Volunteer tourism as a transformative journey - “ It's something that they still have, that many have lost at home”
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskapAbstract : Volunteer tourism is an alternative form of tourism that is constantly increasing. The increase can be considered related to trends about social participation, environmental awareness and moral demands. READ MORE
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2. “Are you Danish enough to be in a beer commercial?” : a selective analysis of representation and national branding in Danish beer advertising, 1980-2020
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medierAbstract : When brands like Carlsberg or Royal draw upon the national brand of Denmark, they not only run the risk of reception resistance, but also of challenges to their claims of cultural legitimacy from the same consumer public they hope to entice, be it domestic or international. Through qualitative content analysis of a sample comprising mainly of print media collected from domestic sources, the author investigated the representation of and references to Danish cultural citizenship and national branding in a representative selection of beer advertisements from the Carlsberg and Royal Unibrew corporations, dating from 1980-2020. READ MORE
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3. Tourists’ expectations of their encounter with indigenous communities in the context of indigenous tourism: Western tourists’online reviews of OvaHimba cultural villages in Namibia
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Indigenous tourism is a debated topic as the lifestyle and culture of indigenous groups are increasingly being promoted as tourist attractions, especially by tourism promotors targeting tourists in more developed countries. Indigenous tourism has become a widely adopted approach used to generate income for indigenous communities, and to the countries in which they are located. READ MORE
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4. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE
