Wie interessant, dass van Beek einen Artikel (2003) mit einer dichten Fallstudie zu kulturellen Darbietungen und Authentizität im Bezug auf Auslandstouristen bei den Dogon in Mali geliefert hat. Lesenswert - ...auch als Einstimmung für den hier angekündigten Vortrag!

Die Tourismus-Ethnologie hat sich intensiv mit Authentizität beschäftigt, diese auch perspektivisch analysiert und kontrovers diskutiert. Einen Überblick über die Debatten liefert u.a. Cricks (1989). Ein Klassiker hierzu ist MacCannell (1973) über staged authenticity.

van Beek, W.E.A. 2003: African tourist encounters: Effects of Tourism in two West-African Societies. In: Africa 73 (3). 251-289.
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This article compares encounters with tourism in two African communities, the Dogon in Mali and the Kapsiki in north Cameroon. The societies are comparable in many respects, but the effects on them of the tourist presence quite different. The Dogon react to tourism by bolstering their cultural pride and self esteem, and they develop inventive ways of gearing their cultural performances to tourist demands without compromising the rituals to which the performances belong. For them, the tourist presence signals the importance and intrinsic interest of Dogon culture. The Cameroonian Kapsiki (called Higi in north Nigeria) interpret the attention bestowed upon them and their country as indicating that they are marginal, living at the rim of the habitable world. They translate the tourist quest for 'authenticity' as being 'backward' and left out. The reasons for these different reactions are traced to processes inherent in cultural tourism, to the specific agenda of tourism in either place, and to some characteristics of the host cultures. The overall effect of tourist encounters with local communities seems to be to reinforce existing patterns of identity construction and to restate the images of the relevant 'other' already current in those cultures.
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Crick, M. 1989: Representations of international tourism in the social
sciences. In: Annual Review of Anthropology 18. 307–44.
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MacCannell, D. 1973: Staged authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings. In: American Journal of Sociology 79. 589-603.