Quiet, We are re-turning
This article deals with the tourist’s gaze as form and as performative practice. The data come from a field study carried out in Tunisia. Nonetheless, it is not the perception of foreign tourists that is examined but rather the local tourists’gaze. The author offers the example of a Tunisian group called the « Vadrouilleurs », whose main activity is to visit the country’s isolated regions. Thus, he puts forward the concept of spinning, wich leads him to establish a parallel between the « vadrouilleurs » and whirling dervishes and, hence, between the two spheres of tourism and spectacle.