Format:
XV, 221 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
0415470013
,
9780203886670
,
9780415470018
Series Statement:
Japan anthropology workshop series
Content:
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Culture of travel (tabi no bunka) and Japanese tourism / Sylvie Guichard-Angus1. Past and the other in the present : Kokunai kokusaika kanko -- domestic international tourism / Nelson Graburn -- 2. Heroic Edo-ic : travelling the history highway in today's Tokugawa Japan / Millie Creighton -- 3. Japanese inns (ryokan) as producers of Japanese identity / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- 4. Meanings of tradition in contemporary Japanese domestic tourism / Markus Oedewald -- 5. Fantasy travel in time and space : a new Japanese phenomenon? / Joy Hendry -- 6. Japanese tourists in Korea : colonial and post-colonial encounters / Okpyo Moon -- 7. Japanese encounter with the South : Japanese tourists in Palau / Shinji Yamashita -- 8. Search for the real thing : Japanese tourism to Britain / Bronwen Surman -- 9. All roads lead to home : Japanese culinary tourism in Italy / Merry I. White.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Japan
;
Tourismus
;
Geschichte
;
Japan
;
Auslandsreise
;
Aufsatzsammlung
