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The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism

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Cultural Identity and Heritage Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research African history and culture studies

Abstract

In this article, I analyze how the Maasai of Kenya are presented in three different tourist performances—postcolonial, postindependence, and postmodern. Each site tells a different story, an alternate version of history, with its own perspective on the role of ethnicity and heritage within the nation‐state and in the world community. Using a method of controlled comparison, I expand the theoretical dialogue in tourism debates by departing from the monolithic discourse that has characterized so much of tourism scholarship, [ethnic tourism, Maasai, globalization, performance, authenticity, ethnography, media images]

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