Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores 'Rastahood', a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium

List of contents

Introduction: I and I: Artmaking, Mobility, and Intercultural Reproduction
Chapter 1: Geography Is Destiny: Craft in Accra
Chapter 2: Men at Work: Craftwork, Masculinity, and Precarity
Chapter 3: From Elephants to Drums: Object, Performance, Mobility
Chapter 4: Styling the Rasta Self
Chapter 5: The Affective Labor of Crafting Freedom
Conclusion: In the Beckoning Elsewhere
References

About the author

Ruti Talmor is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and Chair of the Intercollegiate Media Studies Program at the Claremont Colleges. As a cultural anthropologist, an art curator, and a Professor of Media Studies, Talmor's interdisciplinary work centers on how people use aesthetic objects and practices to craft a place for themselves in the world. This diverse but interrelated body of work sits at the intersection of the anthropology of art, media, and visual culture; the scholarship on migration, mobility, and global capitalism; gender and sexuality studies; and critical curatorial practice. Talmor has been a Fellow of the Getty Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the McCracken Foundation, and the University of Michigan's Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Ruti Talmor, Ruti (Pitzer College Talmor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032656205
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3265620-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History, Popular Culture, Africa, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Humanities, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries