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Volunteer Tourism Encounters Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon Stefanie Schien
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schien, Stefanie <p>Stefanie Schien, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Kultur und soziale Praxis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism.
- Volunteer Tourism.
- Ecuadorian Amazon.
- Voluntourism.
- Local Subjects:
- Tourism.
- Volunteer Tourism.
- Ecuadorian Amazon.
- Voluntourism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- tw11080 Schien - Volunteer Tourism Encounters Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2025
- Biography/History:
- . Stefanie Schien. ist Kuratorin der südamerikanischen Sammlungen am Ethnologischen Museum in Berlin.
- Summary:
- Volunteer tourism is a global trend in which travellers engage in voluntary work, often in social, environmental, or charitable projects. Stefanie Schien explores the lived experiences of a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that hosts volunteer tourists. She challenges the view of locals as passive aid recipients and highlights how they actively navigate, negotiate, and leverage voluntourism to pursue their own strategies and motives. By emphasizing the perspectives and agency of the host community, this thought-provoking study complicates our understanding of voluntourism and shows that what is at stake for the Shuar in this global exchange is the continuation of their self-determined way of life.
- Notes:
- [Auflage - Neueauflage]
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-1004-5
- 9783839410042
- OCLC:
- 1537988931
- Publisher Number:
- 9783839410042
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