Researching indigenous and marginal peoples – Introduction

摘要: Those promoting tourism often seek to highlight that which is unique about their destinations in order attract tourists. Many countries have beautiful landscapes, rich histories and heritage, the tourist may come see linkages of landscape history across different indeed possibly continents. However, search for unique, those with ethnic minority or other groups demarcated by factors than ethnicity but characterised special belief systems ways life living within borders (e.g. Amish) are truly able offer a glimpse something will not be found parts world. Accordingly, being aware holiday makers lay anthropologists seeking little more an entertainment, minorities culture become many places staged show based primarily on song dance. Indeed, such has been process Xie (2011, p. 196) provides example from island Hainan, China, where promoters created ‘the authentic Chiyou tribe’ entertain tourists – tribe developed purely entertainment concepts exotic primitive only loosely native Li people. One partial result described (2011) themselves confused as own culture.