Catherine Mathers

Journal article Tourist Studies · January 1, 2008 Ethnographic research on the everyday lives of those who are privileged to travel as vacationers or on study abroad programs offers important insights into assumptions about global connections in the 21st century. This article tells the stories of two jour ... Full text Cite

Natives, tourists, and makwerekwere: Ethical concerns with 'Proudly South African' tourism

Journal article Development Southern Africa · September 1, 2007 Featured Publication South Africa wants to be the African destination for tourists from the continent and elsewhere in the world. Its ambitions rely on an amorphous 'African' brand that simultaneously positions itself as quintessentially African and 'not African'. Examining th ... Full text Cite

Surviving American empire in Africa: The anthropology of reality television

Journal article International Journal of Cultural Studies · December 1, 2004 Featured Publication Full text Cite

'South Africa is not Africa’: What American students learn about South Africa

Journal article Tourism Review International · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Museums Inside and Out Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage . By Barbara Kirshenblatt‐Gimblett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 344 pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian . By Richard Kurin. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. 315 pp. $34.95 cloth, $17.95 paper

Journal article Current Anthropology · August 2000 Full text Cite

Catherine Mathers

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Mr. Kristof, I Presume?

‘An interplay at specific points’: Traveling between California and Cape Town

Natives, tourists, and makwerekwere: Ethical concerns with 'Proudly South African' tourism

Surviving American empire in Africa: The anthropology of reality television

'South Africa is not Africa’: What American students learn about South Africa

Human adaptations to meat eating

SAMA Beyond 2000: A survey of the role played by the Southern African Museums Association in the 1990s

Evaluating public awareness of 'Mrs Ples' and palaeontological heritage

Were we ever that big? Gradual increase in hominid body size over time

Reconstruction of body heights, age and sex from handprints