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- Title
A 'clash of civilizations' on Mafia Island? The story of a dance festival (Respond to this article at ).
- Authors
Caplan, Pat
- Abstract
This paper considers what happened when it was proposed to hold a large trance-dance festival, formerly held in Greece, on Mafia Island, one of the poorest and most remote districts of Tanzania. While festival organizers sought to portray Mafia as an exotic, unspoiled and unchanged place, a majority of local people opposed the festival for a number of reasons, the chief one being that the arrival of several thousand young Westerners for an event of this kind would threaten their customs and traditions. Following a lengthy and complex decision-making process involving actors both on and off the island, official permission to hold the festival was eventually refused, just a month before it was due to start and after many tickets had already been sold.
- Subjects
MAFIA Island Marine Park (Tanzania); TANZANIA; DANCE festivals; RITES &; ceremonies; DECISION making
- Publication
Anthropology Today, 2011, Vol 27, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0268-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8322.2011.00797.x