Last updated 10th July 2024: Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologise for any delays responding to customers while we resolve this. For further updates please visit our website https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2016
This paper is both a personal and an academic reflection on my work as a U.S.-trained Kenyan anthropologist directing a study-abroad program for American undergraduate students in Kenya. It is an attempt to address three main issues: First is to understand why students choose to come to Kenya and what they hope to achieve by studying here. Second is to get a sense of what kind of prior images and information these students have of Kenya and Africa and how this influences their interaction with Kenya. Third is to understand how I as a Kenyan anthropologist trained in America balance the tasks of cultural broker and teacher of students in Kenya as is demanded of my position as director of a study-abroad program.
1. Bruner, E.M. and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, “Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa,” Cultural Anthropology 9, no. 4 (1994): 435-70CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
2. M. Crick, “The Anthropologist as a Tourist: An Identity in Question,” in International Tourism: Identity and Change, Anthropological and Sociological Studies, ed. J.B. Allcock, E.M. Bruner, and M.F. Lanfant (1993).
3. van de Abbeele, G., “Sightseers: The Tourist as a Theorist,” Diacritics 10(1980): 12–14 Google Scholar.
4. E.M. Bruner, “The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia,” in Allcock, Bruner, and Lanfant.
5. Errington, F. and Gewertz, D., “Tourism and Anthropology in a Post-Modern World,” Oceania 60 (1989): 37–54 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
6. Marcus, George and Fischer, Michael, Anthropology as Cultural Critique (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986)Google Scholar.
7. Caplan, P., African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village (London: Routledge, 1997)Google Scholar.
8. Appadurai, A., “Putting Hierarchy in Its Place,” Cultural Anthropology 3, no. 1 (1988): 36–49 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bruner, E.M., “The Transformation of the Self in Tourism,” Annals of Tourism Research 18, no. 2 (1991): 238-50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
9. Crick, “The Anthropologist as a Tourist,” 2.
10. Halpern, J. and Halpern, B., “The Anthropologist as Tourist: An Incidental Ethnography of the Impact of Tourism in a Dalmatian Village,” East European Quarterly 7 (1972): 149-57Google Scholar.
11. Ibid., 149.
12. Crick, M., “Ali and Me: An Essay in Street-Corner Anthropology,” in Anthropology and Autobiography, ed. Okley, J. and Callaway, H. (London: Routledge, 1992), 188 Google Scholar.
13. Bruner, E.M., “Tourism in Balinese Borderzone,” in Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity, ed. Lavie, S. and Swedenburg, T. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993)Google Scholar.
14. Crick, “The Anthropologist as a Tourist,” 5.
15. Bruner, E.M., “Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers,” Cultural Anthropology 4, no. 4 (1989): 43946CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
16. Kottak, C., Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village (New York, US: Random House, 1983)Google Scholar; Errington and Gewertz.
17. Bruner and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 455.
18. Bruner, E.M., “Introduction: The Ethnographic Self and the Personal Self,” in Anthropology and Literature, ed. Benson, Paul (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 9 Google Scholar.
19. Berreman, G., Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), xviiGoogle Scholar.
20. See, for instance, Bruner, “Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers” and “The Transformation of the Self’; Crick, M., “Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility,” in Criticism, Heresy, and Interpretation 1 (1988): 37–76 Google Scholar, “Ali and Me,” and “The Anthropologist as a Tourist”; and Cohen, E., “Authenticity and Commoditization in Tourism,” Annals of Tourism Research 15 (1988): 371-86CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
