Para uma antropologia visual do turismo: O uso crítico de metodologias e materiais visuais

摘要

Abstract: This article discusses the uses of visual means in an anthropology that studies tourism. The text?reflects on the proliferation of media and recording, production and distribution tools of technologized visual?images and proposes an approach that considers production conditions, the meanings of the images and their?different receptions. The ‘digital age’ is also discussed, particularly its transformative potential of reception,?production and dissemination, together with new forms of authorship, the velocity of contents circulation?and the revision of the boundaries between real and unreal, documentary and fiction, science and art. The?background for my argument is that of a world that, facilitating and stimulating leisure, mobilities and?contemplation and consumption of the different and the beautiful (landscape, heritage, monumental) does?not cease to produce a (digital) imagery ‘divide’; i.e. unequal accesses to visual representation tools of the?‘others’, of themselves and of the world.