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Journal Article
Seeing, Being Seen, and Not Being Seen: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Layers of Looking at the Kumbh Mela
2009
Overview
Among pilgrims, the difficulty of the journey is believed to be rewarded with an equivalent portion of spiritual reward, but the risk-averse traveler may find compensation less quantifiable, however exciting the experience. [...] the presence of the media at the mela largely operates to facilitate a tourist gaze, telescoping events at the Kumbh and feeding them to various markets.\\n79 In 2001, the Indian media in particular directed much attention toward Westerners in pilgrimage mode, from the silly to the very serious, implying that there is something appealing about this form of mimicry in reverse.80 To return to \"Kumbh Mela Women,\" the photograph with which I began:
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Wiley Subscription Services, Inc,The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
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