{"title":"Classifying the Natives in Early Modern Ethnographies: Henry Lord's A Display of Two Foreign Sects in the East Indies (1630)","authors":"A. Sen, Jyotsna G. Singh","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2013.140205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2013.140205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"69-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75370348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The question of the cultural Other has always been central in the anthropology of tourism. The predominant way in which the Other appears in writings about Africa is as a manifestation of primitiveness. But the concept of the primitive tends to be treated in this literature in general terms, rather than analyzed through specific case studies. This article presents an image-dependent historiographical case study of the concept of the primitive through an analysis of colonial travelogues, hunting stories, guide and coffee table books and tourist blogs relating to the lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia. The article investigates how the trope of the primitive has been used as a politically and culturally powerful ideology and argues that a visual-historical methodology is an effective tool to explicate the social history of the primitive, an idea that draws many Western tourists to visit remote corners of Africa and seek out exotic tribes. The article is based on an extended period of anthropological field research and an extensive analysis of secondary sources.
{"title":"The Concept of the Primitive in Texts and Images: From Colonial Travelogues to Tourist Blogs in Southwestern Ethiopia","authors":"Tamás Régi","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2013.140103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2013.140103","url":null,"abstract":"The question of the cultural Other has always been central in the anthropology of tourism. The predominant way in which the Other appears in writings about Africa is as a manifestation of primitiveness. But the concept of the primitive tends to be treated in this literature in general terms, rather than analyzed through specific case studies. This article presents an image-dependent historiographical case study of the concept of the primitive through an analysis of colonial travelogues, hunting stories, guide and coffee table books and tourist blogs relating to the lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia. The article investigates how the trope of the primitive has been used as a politically and culturally powerful ideology and argues that a visual-historical methodology is an effective tool to explicate the social history of the primitive, an idea that draws many Western tourists to visit remote corners of Africa and seek out exotic tribes. The article is based on an extended period of anthropological field research and an extensive analysis of secondary sources.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"92 1","pages":"40-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74840523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traveling by the Book: New South Wales Railway Guides and the \"Tourist Gaze\"","authors":"C. Symes","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2013.140101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2013.140101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73613135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using Geertz’s Verstehen/Einfuhlen distinction, this article begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The article then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands ([1959] 1991) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show understanding for and empathy with his Bedu traveling companions. Thesiger’s Verstehen is demonstrated through comparing the details he gives of Bedu culture with current manifestations. His Einfuhlen is shown through his overarching concern for his companions and his respectful descriptions of their life, avoiding the typical Victorian condescension toward “natives” and the self-absorbed gushing of many modern travel writers. Based on seven years of studying the culture of southern Oman, the article argues that Thesiger’s writing shows a rare combination of accuracy and empathy, which elevates his book to a model of both anthropological and travel writing.
{"title":"Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist","authors":"Marielle Risse","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2013.140102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2013.140102","url":null,"abstract":"Using Geertz’s Verstehen/Einfuhlen distinction, this article begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The article then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands ([1959] 1991) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show understanding for and empathy with his Bedu traveling companions. Thesiger’s Verstehen is demonstrated through comparing the details he gives of Bedu culture with current manifestations. His Einfuhlen is shown through his overarching concern for his companions and his respectful descriptions of their life, avoiding the typical Victorian condescension toward “natives” and the self-absorbed gushing of many modern travel writers. Based on seven years of studying the culture of southern Oman, the article argues that Thesiger’s writing shows a rare combination of accuracy and empathy, which elevates his book to a model of both anthropological and travel writing.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"1 1","pages":"23-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79977523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines visits by French people to the former Soviet prison camp in Tambov, Russia, where Alsatians-Mosellans men were imprisoned during World War II. Because the memory of these pris ...
{"title":"Re-Visiting the Site of the Former Soviet Prison Camp in Tambov","authors":"Florence Fröhlig","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2013.140104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2013.140104","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines visits by French people to the former Soviet prison camp in Tambov, Russia, where Alsatians-Mosellans men were imprisoned during World War II. Because the memory of these pris ...","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"113 1","pages":"68-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76611524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile Sepulchre and Interactive Formats of Memorialization: On Funeral and Mourning Practices in Digital Art","authors":"Maja Petrović-Šteger","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2012.130206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2012.130206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"54 1","pages":"71-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78363934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies in Motion: Pilgrims, Seers, and Religious Experience at Marian Apparition Sites","authors":"Sandra L. Zimdars‐Swartz","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2012.130203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2012.130203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"35 1","pages":"28-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81493574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Footsteps of Walter Benjamin","authors":"Michael D. Jackson","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2012.130202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2012.130202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"45 1","pages":"6-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76329052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory as Absence and Presence: Pilgrimage, “Archeo-Theology,“ and the Creativity of Destruction","authors":"S. Coleman","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2012.130101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2012.130101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"183 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74635282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Figments of My Foreign Imagination“: Peter Carey's Sydney and Tokyo","authors":"D. Huddart","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2012.130102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2012.130102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":"7 1","pages":"21-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79748575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}