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Books
2016 Dynamics behind persistent images of ´the other´: The interplay between imaginations and interactions in Maasai cultural tourism. Berlin: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-643-90799-8. Description by publisher Google books Full text
2016 Maasai Jewelry: European beads with African stories / Massai Schmuck: Europäische Perlen mit Afrikanische Geschichten. Bayreuth: Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth. ISBN 978-3-00-052327-4. Description Full text
2010 Blessings and Burdens of Charismatic Mega-Fauna: How Taita and Maasai Communities Deal with Wildlife Protection in Kenya. Master Thesis for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Non-Western Societies, University of Amsterdam, 2008. München: Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München. ISBN 978-3-863-06649-9. Description by publisher
2010 The World Bank and the Representation of Africa: The mission behind the rhetoric of poverty reduction. Master Thesis for the Department of Political Science in the Field of International Relations, University of Amsterdam, 2006. Beau-Bassin: VDM Publishing. ISBN 978-3-639-27072-3. Description by publisher
Journal articles
2023 Wijngaarden, V. & Paul Nkoitoi Ole Murero. Osotua and decolonizing the academe: Implications of a Maasai concept. In: Curriculum Perspectives 43(Suppl 1): 33-46. Special Issue: Narrowing the Gap Beyond Tokenism: Transdisciplinary Search for Innovative Approaches in the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Epistemologies in Higher Education. DOI : 10.1007/s41297-023-00190-2. Abstract and full text
2023 Interviewing animals through animal communicators: Potentials of intuitive interspecies communication for multispecies methods. In: Society and Animals 32 (5/6): 519-539. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10122. Full text
2023 Q Sorting with Non-Reading Participants: Some Effective Adaptations to the Q-Methodological Workflow. In: Operant Subjectivity 43: 37-56. DOI: 10.22488/okstate.21.100589 Abstract and full text
2021 Maasai perspectives on modernity: Narratives of evolution, nature and culture. In: Critical African Studies 13(2): 197-215. DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2020.1850303. Abstract and article Full text
2020 Intercultural communication in research interviews: Accessing information from research participants from another culture. In: Journal of Intercultural Communication, 20(2): 89-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v20i2.307. Abstract and full text
2019 Barnabas, S. B. & V. Wijngaarden. “When We Are Laughing Like This Now, We Are Also Being Recorded by Them”: Eliamani’s Homestead and the Complicity of Ethnographic Film. In: Visual Anthropology Review 35(2): 187-198. DOI: 10.1111/var.12191. Abstract and article Full text
2019 Eliamani’s Homestead. In: Journal of Anthropological Films, 3(1), e1488. DOI: 10.15845/jaf.v3i1.1488. Full text
2018 Maasai beadwork has always been modern: An exploration of modernity through artefacts. In: Cultural Dynamics 30(4): 235-252. DOI: 10.1177/0921374018809733. Abstract and article Full text
2017 Q method and ethnography in tourism research: enhancing insights, comparability and reflexivity. In: Current Issues in Tourism 20(8): 869-882. DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2016.1170771. Abstract and article Full text
2016 Tourists’ agency versus the circle of representation. In: Annals of Tourism Research 60: 139-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.07.005. Abstract and article Full text
2010 Cosmopolitan Savages: The challenging art of selling African culture to tourists. In: Etnofoor 22 (2): 98-125. Abstract and article Full text
Book chapters
2025 Hoërner, U. & V. Wijngaarden, Listen to the Birds: Using Intuitive Interspecies Communication to Work with African Grey Parrot Voices in an Art Project. In: Fenske, M. Narrating the Multispecies World: Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. Pp. 47-69. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470565. ISBN 978-3-8376-7056-1. Full text
2024 Intuitive Interspecies Communication and Language Beyond the Human: Bridging Posthumanist and Indigenous Understandings in practice. In: Hadzantonis, M. The Proceedings of the 2023 GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology. London: SOAS University of London. Pp. 355-371. ISSN 2707-8647. Full text
2022 Relationality. In: Ballamingie, P. & D. Szanto, Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding social science concepts through illustrative vignettes. Ottawa: Showing Theory Press. Pp. 394-400. DOI: 10.22215/stkt/wv19. Full text
2021 Barrett, M.J., V. Hinz, V. Wijngaarden & M. Lovrod, ‘Speaking’ With Other Animals through Intuitive Interspecies Communication: Towards Cognitive and Interspecies Justice In: Hovorka, A.J., S. McCubbin & L. van Patter, A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Pp. 149-165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979993.00018. ISBN 9781788979986. Abstract and chapter
2021 Wijngaarden, V & G.E. Idahosa, An integrated approach towards decolonising higher education: A perspective from Anthropology. In: Woldegiorgis, E., A. Brahima, A. & I. Turner, Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa: Perspectives from Hybrid Knowledge Production. London: Routledge. Pp. 36-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355288. ISBN 9780367360603. Abstract and website full text
2014 A Tanzanian Maasai view of whiteness: A complex relationship between half-brothers. In: Michael, L. and Schulz, S. (eds.) Unsettling Whiteness. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 203-215. ISBN 978-1-84888-282-9. Abstract and full text
2012 The lion has become a cow: The Maasai hunting paradox. In: Van Beek, W.E.A. & A. Schmidt (eds.) African hosts and their guests: Cultural dynamics of tourism in Africa. London: James Currey. Pp. 176-200. ISBN 978-1-84701-049-0. Description by publisher Google books
2011 The power behind representations: The World Bank and African poverty reduction from 1970-2000. In: Horáková, H., Nugent, P. & Skalník, P. (eds.) Africa: Power and Powerlessness. Muenster: LIT Verlag. Pp. 107-120. ISBN 978-3-643-11187-6. Description by publisher Google books Full text
Reviews
2025 Meitamei Olol Dapash and Mary Poole, Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures. London: Bloomsbury. In: Africa
2021 The Eye of Africa. In: Visual Anthropology 34(2): 178-180. DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2020.1830675. Abstract and article
2020 In and Out of the Maasai Steppe. In: Visual Anthropology 33(4): 392-395. DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2020.1791576 Abstract and article
2019 Walking to Australia: 21st Century Excursions into Humanity’s Greatest Migration, by David Robbins. In: Critical Arts. 32(5-6): 141-144. DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2018.1551909 Abstract and article Full text
Blogs and articles for a wider public
2019 The application of ATLAS.ti in different qualitative data analysis strategies. In: The ATLAS.ti Research Blog. May 23. Full text
2017 Maasai beads: the interplay between Europe and Africa. In: The Conversation, October 1. Full text Republished in: Qrius (The Indian Economist), October 3. Full text
2017 Quand familles masaï et touristes se rencontrent sous l’œil de la caméra. In: The Conversation, October 4. Full text
2017 Quand des touristes occidentaux rencontrent des Masai, nobles “sauvages” de leur imaginaire. In: Le Monde, October 6. Full text
2017 A close-up look at what happens when tourists and Maasai communities meet. In: The Conversation, October 11. Full text
2017 Saviez-vous que les perles des Masaï venaient… d’Europe? In: The Conversation, October 13. Full text
Dissertation and Research Reports
2014 Persistent images of ‘the other’ in cultural tourism: The interplay between Maasai’s and tourists’ imaginations and their face-to-face interactions. Doctoral thesis in the field of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, Germany, November 10.
2011 Evaluation Mkuru Camel Safaris: A report based on positive and negative feedback of guests. Mkuru, Tanzania.
2011 Evaluation Batwa Cultural Experience. Report for Batwa Development Project (BDP) Buhoma, Uganda.
2008 Local people’s perspectives on an increase in conservancy areas around the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Report for Basecamp Masai Mara, Talek.
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