The Anthropologist as Barman and Tour-Guide: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Touristed Destination

Adam R. Kaul, University of Durham

Figure 1: The road into Doolin
Figure 1: The road into Doolin
Figure 2: Tourists invading the "backstages"
Figure 2: Tourists invading the "backstages"
Figure 3: The ethnographer as employee
Figure 3: The ethnographer as employee
Figure 4: Tourists Visually "Consume" The Session
Figure 4: Tourists Visually "Consume" The Session
Figure 5: Relatives "gazing" at the landscape’Äîin this case, Connor's Pass, County Kerry.
Figure 5: Relatives "gazing" at the landscape’Äîin this case, Connor's Pass, County Kerry.
Figure 6: A friend discovering an ancestral gravestone
Figure 6: A friend discovering an ancestral gravestone
Figure 7: Relatives exploring heritage sites--in this case, a local holy well
Figure 7: Relatives exploring heritage sites--in this case, a local holy well
Figure 8: Relatives taking in the pub scene
Figure 8: Relatives taking in the pub scene