Thomas Apchain- Phd
- Associate Professor at University of Angers
Thomas Apchain
- Phd
- Associate Professor at University of Angers
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This article aims to study the relationship between anthropology and tourism—as one of its objects. From the pionneers in the 1960s to the latest publications, the authors will examine the theoritical and ethnographical diversity of the approaches used in anthropology to study tourism. In a reflexive approach, it will trace the academical, scientif...
Equitation in the French tradition has been registered on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO since 2011. This inscription enshrines a French history of equestrian practices and cultures but has difficulties to extend beyond the limits of the Cadre Noir of Saumur, the institution that has been the bearer of the nom...
Paru quelques mois avant la disparition d’Edward Bruner, The Ethnography of Tourism est un ouvrage collectif qui fait la somme de son héritage en anthropologie du tourisme. Plusieurs anthropologues y reviennent sur la carrière de Bruner et proposent de confronter ses concepts à leurs propres terrains. La lecture de l’ouvrage fournit une opportunité...
Erving Goffman never wrote about tourism and it may, therefore, seem strange to reflect, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, on his contribution to the study of a phenomenon that he never undertook to study directly. However, many lessons can be drawn from Goffman’s sociology towards an understanding of certain central issues in tourism....
Text is available here : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738323001500
This edited email dialogue between a senior American social scientist, Dean MacCannell, and an early career French anthropologist, Thomas Apchain, began soon after they observed that two of the earliest contributions to tourism studies, MacCannell's and Ne...
This paper aims to reflect on the possibilities of analysing gazes within a specific social situation, namely tourist visits to Rio de Janeiro’s favelas . The paper aims to do so outside the line initiated by John Urry’s tourist gaze. In fact, the goal here is to first describe gazes in their interactional aspects. Therefore, this paper focusses le...
Les favelas ont longtemps cristallisé les peurs des touristes séjournant à Rio de Janeiro. Aujourd’hui attractives, une véritable pratique touristique s’est instituée dans certaines d’entre elles. Bien que toujours considérés par ses acteurs comme une activité « hors des sentiers battus », des favela-tours s’organisent désormais quotidiennement.Les...
The global health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the tourism industry to a nearly complete standstill. It has therefore impacted researchers specializing in its study and forced them to reinvent their methods. This paper draws a reflection on how four anthropologists sought to rethink their fieldwork in order to observe the impa...
