Indigenous Tourism: A Perfect Site for ‘Guesthood’ Research?

Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism - Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey - David G. Robertson

Helen Jennings [+-]
Dr Helen Jennings is currently an independent scholar; she completed her PhD in Religious Studies at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. The dissertation was about articulations of indigeneity and spirituality as presented in Indigenous Tourism and was based on fieldwork in British Columbia, Canada. Her current interests build on this work as she has publications forthcoming on: Indigenous tourism as a site for reclaiming and becoming, religion making in a decolonial mode, and women and fieldwork. Helen wrote this paper on ‘guesthood’ whilst benefiting from a ‘transitional scholarship’ for which she thanks UiT.

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This chapter explores indigenous tourism in British Columbia, Canada, which in part has been set in train by indigenous communities themselves in order to establish sites and occasions for education and dialogue. Jennings explores her transition from tourist to guest researcher and constitutes a careful meditation on the ethics of pursuing research with indigenous communities through the lens of guesthood. James L. Cox (University of Edinburgh) takes the idea of guesthood further in his “‘Guesthood’ as a Scientific Method: Principles Supporting Relational Research”. Drawing on the physicist Carlo Rovelli, Graham’s 2003 Numen article and others, Cox presents an approach he calls “relational research” which combines guesthood, phenomenology and action research.

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Jennings, Helen. Indigenous Tourism: A Perfect Site for ‘Guesthood’ Research?. Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism - Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. Sep 2025. ISBN 9781800505810. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=46274. Date accessed: 09 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.46274. Sep 2025

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