Essay Question: Discuss the ways in which contemporary tourism practices impact the ‘Bushmen’.
Please read ALL of this before starting the essay and please make sure the writer is an EXPERT in social anthropology!!!
Before writing this essay, PLEASE research this essay topic to understand what it means and what to write about, the sources below should be extremely helpful for your research. Do not start writing this essay without researching and being fully informed first.
Instructions:
NEED to be 2,000 words, please keep it as close as possible to that exactly.
NEED to use ETHNOGRAPHIC EXAMPLES to support your arguments
NEED to use at least 3, but not limited to, you can use all of the sources cited below, but please use them in the paper and reference them and use them for your research
NEED to use at least 3 ethnographic examples
NEED to have 7 sources at least total
NEED to have a bibliography at the end citing all of the sources used, please do this in JRAI citation format
Please make sure throughout the essay that you are citing your sources as you are writing the paper too, which should be a lot because this paper should have A LOT of evidence, research, and support in it
Important: This is a formal essay, NOT a bunch of different paragraphs smushed together, it needs to flow seamlessly and have an introduction, body paragraphs, a conclusion, and a thesis statement. The title of the essay should be the essay question. This is a research and analytical essay, you are writing about the research and using evidence as proof. Please make sure this essay has topic sentences to start each paragraph, so that the transitions are great. Thank you so much!
Sources to use:
Finlay, Kate, and Shanade Barnabas. 2012, “Shifting representations of the Bushmen.” In Cultural Tourism and Identity, pp. 71-83. Brill.
Garland, Elizabeth, and Robert J. Gordon. 1999 “The authentic (in) authentic: Bushman anthro‐tourism.” Visual Anthropology 12, no. 2-3: 267-287.
Green, Isobel, and Jarkko Saarinen. 2022. “Changing Environment and the Political Ecology of Authenticity in Heritage Tourism: A Case of the Ovahimba and the Ju/’Hoansi-San Living Museums in Namibia.” In Southern African Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Management, pp. 139-152. Springer, Cham.
Gressier, Catie. 2020. “The Noble Savage Reconfigured: Paradox and Mimesis on Safari in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.” In Anthropological Forum, vol. 30, no. 1-2, pp. 174-191. Routledge,
Koot, Stasja. “Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism.” In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology, pp. 315-326. Routledge, 2016.
Koot, Stasja 2016.. “Contradictions of capitalism in the South African Kalahari: Indigenous Bushmen, their brand and baasskap in tourism.” Journal of Sustainable Tourism 24, no. 8-9: 1211-1226.
