Tourism in Ghana : the representation of slavery and the return of the black diaspora
Object Details
- Author
- Bruner, Edward M
- Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI
- Subject
- Elmina Castle (Elmina, Ghana)
- Illustrations.
- African American tourists returning to mother Africa, specifically to Ghana's slave castle at Elmina, encounter Africans (in this case the Fante of Elmina) whose perceptions and attitudes differ remarkably. The demands of cultural tourism create tensions and a new dynamic. Who really owns Elmina Castle?
- Reprinted in the author's Culture on tour: ethnographies of travel (University of Chicago Press, 2005), pages 100-123 with the title "Slavery and the return of the Black Diaspora: tourism in Ghana" (G156.5.H47B78 2005 AFA).
- 1996
- Call number
- GN1 .A5X
- Type
- Articles
- Place
- Ghana
- Elmina
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Tourism
- Museums
- Forts
- Heritage tourism
- Historical reenactments
- Fante festivals
- African Americans--Relations with Africans
- African Americans--Attitudes
- Ghanaians--Attitudes
- Slave trade
- Record ID
- siris_sil_681394
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
