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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Film and Television, August 2017 / Located in the town of Nieu Bethesda in the Karoo desert, the Owl House is a fascinating heritage museum that was once the home to outsider artist, Helen Martins. Much work has been created about the eccentric Helen Martins and her unusual home, and appears in the form of books, films, music and plays. The content of these works follow a similar pattern, and it is the aim of this research and film to explore a less literal interpretation of the Owl House, and its creators, Helen Martins and Koos Malgas. The Owl House is re-imagined through the lens of an experimental essay film, juxtaposing footage of the creative eastern imagery of the Owl House (in South Africa) with actual footage of the east (India, Thailand and Laos). In exploring these binaries, an investigation of theory of the landscape, home, mobility and hermeneutics takes place. Furthermore, these theories and concepts are looked at in relation to the politics of an apartheid, and later, a democratic South Africa. The Owl House is therefore analysed as the collaboration of the white, female Helen Martins, and the coloured, male Koos Malgas. / XL2018

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-06T12:06:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Willian Brandão Domingues.pdf: 25234888 bytes, checksum: eeed9afd2f373c96d0586241d3dbfd5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-06T12:06:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Willian Brandão Domingues.pdf: 25234888 bytes, checksum: eeed9afd2f373c96d0586241d3dbfd5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-05 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / In order to analyze how foreign travelers reported and portrayed Brazil, the following research had been devoted to Jean-Baptiste Debret's analyzes of iconographic and written sources. Debret's artistic history at the court of Napoleon Bonaparte had greatly influenced his choice as a historical painter of the court of D. João VI and later of D. Pedro I after his coming to Brazil as part of the "Mission" Artistica Francesa, closely following all the events of the monarchy in the tropics. Through the study of his works, we realized that his role was not only as a historical painter, but also a picturesque painter, with a vast collection of representations of the daily life and culture of the Brazilian people, especially in the city of Rio de Janeiro / Com o objetivo de analisar a maneira como os viajantes estrangeiros relataram e retrataram o Brasil, a seguinte pesquisa se dedica às análises das fontes iconográficas e escritas de Jean-Baptiste Debret. O histórico artístico de Debret na corte de Napoleão Bonaparte, influenciara amplamente na sua escolha como pintor histórico da corte de D. João VI e futuramente de D. Pedro I após sua vinda ao Brasil como componente da “Missão” Artística Francesa, acompanhando de perto todos os acontecimentos da monarquia nos trópicos. Por meio do estudo de suas obras, percebemos que seu papel não foi somente como pintor histórico, mas também um pintor pitoresco, com um vasto acervo de representações do cotidiano e da cultura do povo brasileiro, principalmente da cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Tan, Xilin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-127). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; includes Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Controversies over the Ghost City --- p.1 / Fengdu --- p.2 / The Ghost City and Popular Religion --- p.3 / The Three Gorges Reservoir and the Relocation --- p.8 / Developing Tourism --- p.9 / Popular Religion in China --- p.13 / Revival of Popular Religion --- p.13 / Legitimatization of Popular Religion --- p.15 / Organization of the thesis --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Landscape of Fengdu --- p.20 / Landscape of Fengdu County --- p.20 / The Reservoir Area in Chongqing --- p.20 / Population --- p.23 / Influence of the Dam --- p.25 / Fengdu Religious Landscape --- p.30 / The Ghost City after the 1980s --- p.33 / The Divine Palace: A Modern Amusement Park --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Legitimating the Ghost City --- p.51 / The Ghost City in Dispute --- p.51 / The Ambiguous Use of Wenhua --- p.52 / “The Culture of the Ghost City´ح --- p.54 / Promoting Righteousness --- p.56 / New Symbols of Fengdu: from Ghost to Divinity --- p.60 / Promoting the Ghost City --- p.63 / Another Version of Local Culture --- p.65 / Conclusion --- p.67 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Fengdu Temple Festival 2009 --- p.70 / Fengdu Incense Festival in the Past --- p.70 / Festival Origins and the Incense Festival Before 1949 --- p.70 / Names and Organization --- p.73 / The Fengdu Temple Festival in 2009 --- p.75 / The Parade: Memories of Fengdu --- p.77 / Emperor of the Netherworld and His Wedding --- p.78 / Fengdu in History and the New Cultural Symbolism --- p.80 / People's Participation --- p.80 / Conclusion --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- People's Religious Life in Current Fengdu --- p.87 / Tourism and Its Influence --- p.87 / Tour Guides --- p.87 / Communal Temples --- p.96 / The Wantian Shrine --- p.101 / Why do local people go to the Ghost City? --- p.102 / Spirit Mediums --- p.107 / Grandma Long --- p.108 / Water Bowl Augur --- p.109 / A Physiognomist --- p.110 / Conclusion --- p.111 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion --- p.113 / A Rise of Superstition? --- p.113 / In the Name of Development --- p.115 / Promoting Tourism as a Means to Vitalize the County's Economy --- p.116 / The Wenhua of the Ghost City --- p.117 / The Culture of the Ghost City --- p.118 / The Lost Ghost --- p.118 / Popular Religious Practices in Daily Life --- p.119 / Alternative Interpretations of the Ghost City --- p.119 / Local Pilgrim --- p.121 / Bibliography --- p.124

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Travel writing is by definition an open and hybrid form that encompasses a variety of genres, styles, and modes of presentation. This study focuses on four little-known travel texts about Italy written between 1840 and 1880 by two English and two German women writers and shows how, by exploiting the openness of the form of travel writing, they broadened its scope beyond mere description to provide insight into national ideologies and identities while expanding the boundaries of the female sphere of influence. This study considers the following texts: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844), Adele Schopenhauer’s Florenz: Ein Reiseführer mit Anekdoten und Erzählungen (1847/48) (2007), Frances Power Cobbe’s Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People, and Places in Italy, in 1864 (1864), and Fanny Lewald’s Reisebriefe aus Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich 1877, 1878 (1880). In the first chapter, the four texts under consideration are presented against the backdrop of nineteenth-century sexual ideology of the ‘separate spheres’ and the conventions of women’s travel writing. A survey of the long tradition of English and German travellers to Italy and their writings is provided to establish the context in which the texts were produced. Also considered is the role they play in the narrative of Italian nation-building. In the second chapter, the discussion of Rambles in Germany and Italy examines how, by presenting herself as a mother and an educator, Shelley foregrounds the pedagogical purpose of the book, which aims at garnering the sympathy of her British audience for the oppressive political situation of the Italian people and their growing nationalism. The third chapter explores Schopenhauer’s attempt in Florenz to create her own gendered version of the guidebook for travellers in the style of Murray and Baedeker and to revive the memory of the democratic institutions of thirteenth-century Florence at a time when Italians were fighting for democratic reforms and independence. The fourth chapter shows how, in Italics, the representation of Italy in the wake of its partial unification in 1861 is closely intertwined with Cobbe’s own thinking on politics, religion, and women’s emancipation. The fifth chapter examines how, in Reisebriefe, the discussion of the social and political changes that had affected both Italy and Germany in the previous forty years allows Lewald to engage in a reflection on her own femininity and on the role of women in the newly formed German nation. Shelley, Schopenhauer, Cobbe and Lewald each used travel writing to explore their own identities as women and as writers. Pushing the form beyond exposition into the realm of social commentary, they used it to shape public opinion and to explore new roles for women in society.

This thesis examines the role of photography in making the Canadian Pacific Railway company (CPR) an integral part of Canadian mythology. It focuses on the company's photographic advertising in the 1920s, and the ways in which its increasingly nationalistic transcontinental brochures framed the country, and equated the act of travelling with nation-building and national identity. / The CPR's tourist brochures established a visual vocabulary of the travelling experience, which was readily employed by individuals such as Montreal journalist Frank Randall Clarke. Clarke was sponsored by the CPR to travel across the country in the summer of 1929. His journalistic writing and personal photograph album allow for a rich analysis of the visual culture of the period, and they will be used to illustrate the ways in which the CPR represented Canadian progress, immigration, and tourism.

As a large-scale international cultural phenomenon, the Jerusalem pilgrimage must be approached comparatively. This project compares the pilgrimage accounts of two Germans and two Englishmen who travelled to Jerusalem in the second half of the long fifteenth century. The texts are those of William Wey, (written c.1470), Bernhard von Breydenbach (printed 1486), Arnold von Harff (written 1499) and the 'Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guylforde', composed by his anonymous chaplain (printed 1511). Each chapter focuses on a pilgrim, and one of four thematic topics: genre, the religious other, curiosity and print. This project treats these works as literary texts which can be approached from the perspective of cultural history, rather than as historical sources. The project, therefore, is more a consideration of how the pilgrimage is represented than it is about the events of each pilgrimage, and so it looks at the pilgrimages created in writing. Pilgrimage writings tend to focus on Jerusalem's spiritual significance, rather than its worldly position. In this sense, textual representations of travel to Jerusalem represent something of a disconnect with travel to other physical destinations, and the conceptual space of pilgrimage will be of key significance to this thesis. This has implications for practice as well as writing, and therefore the thesis will address how the writers consider their journeys, as well as the idea of virtual pilgrimage. The thesis engages with questions of identity, and how it is presented, as well as the authors' relationship with their audiences. This necessitates analysing collective identity, as well as the different audiences for printed and manuscript texts. The most important research question, bringing together these issues, considers whether the authors' different geographical origins affect their self-presentation and understanding of pilgrimage. This leads to my central contention: that pilgrimage must be portrayed as a single, unified experience.

Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Tourism and Hospitality Management in the Faculty of Business at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2013 / This thesis is concerned with the service delivery received by pilgrims based in South Africa, especially with regards to services and amenities that were paid for and promised in the contract, but which may not have materialized. The focus on Hajj travelling can be viewed as an aspect of religious tourism (so to speak). Currently there is a dearth of research on this particular spiritual journey in South Africa. For this reason, this research aims to elucidate the service delivery components, processes and challenges. The researcher finds it necessary to research this topic because pilgrimage constitutes part of religious tourism and the policies governing the Hajj industry, as well as the operational aspects of the Hajj industry are unclear. Problems such as poor service standards, lack of business ethics and malpractice exist in the Hajj industry. The main challenges in the South African Hajj industry are: a) Lack of mainstream travel and tourism practices in the South African Hajj industry. b) Absence of a service and quality driven industry. c) Difficulty in acquisition of travel documentation for pilgrims. d) Lack of business ethics and malpractice by service providers. e) Limitations on travel through the newly introduced quota system by the Hajj Ministry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In 1994 the South African Government formed the South African Hajj and Umrah Council, (SAHUC) and is a nationally based constituted organisation. This organisation is officially recognised by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the official structure responsible and accountable for facilitating the affairs of the South African pilgrims within South Africa and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SAHUC, 2005). The researcher intends on addressing the above-mentioned challenges through developing a service delivery framework that will help alleviate the problems in the industry between South African Hajj role players. The framework is aimed at identifying current gaps between supply and demand in the Hajj industry as well as providing recommendations for the future.

Orientador: Claudio Henrique de Moraes Batalha / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T18:14:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Torres_RaquelMundim_M.pdf: 5070635 bytes, checksum: 952e0d1e3497803ff6d8a878deba3c1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esse trabalho analisa os primeiros relatos de viagem de brasileiros à União Soviética, publicados entre 1928 e 1933. Busca historicizá-los, salientando não só as ideologias de seus autores, como também o contexto anticomunista imposto pelas autoridades brasileiras, em especial, pelo Itamaraty. A pesquisa aborda ainda a maneira como as viagens ocorriam e a forma como os viajantes eram recepcionados e manejados por algumas cidades da URSS. Para tal, analisa como agências soviéticas atuavam na hospitalidade dos viajantes, a fim de controlarem e persuadirem suas percepções. Por fim, é feito uma análise da imagem que os viajantes brasileiros formaram do cotidiano soviético no período em que viajaram correspondente ao período do Primeiro Plano Quinquenal. O intuito principal da pesquisa foi trabalhar com os relatos de viagem nas suas mais diversas possibilidades, a fim de contribuir para a inserção destas narrativas como fontes documentais na historiografia social / Abstract: This research analyzes travel accounts from the first Brazilians who went to the Soviet Union, published between 1928 and 1933. It aims to historicize them, stressing not only the ideologies of their authors, but also the Brazilian anticommunist context imposed by authorities, in particular by the Foreign Ministry, Itamaraty. The research also investigates how the trips occurred and how the travelers were received and treated in some cities of the USSR. For that, it analyzes how some Soviet agencies behaved in hospitality, in order to control and persuade their perceptions. Finally, an analysis is made of the image that Brazilian travelers formed from Soviet everyday life on the period of the First Five-Year Plan. The main purpose of this study was to work with travel accounts considering its various possibilities, in order to contribute to the inclusion of these narratives as documentary sources in social historiography / Mestrado / Historia Social / Mestra em História