Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco‐Lodge in Guyana
James Andrew Whitaker
Abstract:This article explores how villagers in Surama form alliances with outsiders through strategic hospitality within the touristic borderzone. Surama is a primarily Makushi village in Guyana. Tourism began during the 1990s and is now central to the village economy. Villagers' efforts to form relationships with certain visitors (particularly tourist leaders) as partners or yakos through hospitality reflect an ontological framework associated with shamanism. This involves relational modes of interaction that are com… Show more
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