Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?

Trekking itineraries and camping trips on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco are frequently the scene of sexual exchanges between Western female tourists and their guides, who are members of settled Saharan Bedouin tribes. With no price tag, or even payment requested, these interactions seem t...

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Main Author: Corinne Cauvin Verner
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Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2010-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/807
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description Trekking itineraries and camping trips on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco are frequently the scene of sexual exchanges between Western female tourists and their guides, who are members of settled Saharan Bedouin tribes. With no price tag, or even payment requested, these interactions seem to be the starting point of more or less perennial liaisons. A monographic study within the tribal group reveals complex transactional logics which defeat all theories of any type of prostitution. Emancipation rather than transgression, a raiding economy rather than prostitution, an aesthetics of fantasia rather than debauchery, the seduction and capitalization of foreign women is part of a common economic and lineage rationality around the reaffirmation of a Bedouin ethos.
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Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
L’Année du Maghreb
Morocco
sex tourism
Bedouin societies
Sahara
interracial sex
title Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
title_full Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
title_fullStr Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
title_full_unstemmed Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
title_short Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ?
title_sort le tourisme sexuel vu du sahara marocain une economie de razzia
topic Morocco
sex tourism
Bedouin societies
Sahara
interracial sex
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/807
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