Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Guichard-Anguis, Sylvie; Moon, Okpyo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134104826
• Artikelnr.: 38263575

Autorenporträt

Sylvie Guichard-Anguis is a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and works as a member of the research group "Spaces, Nature and Culture" in the Department of Geography, Paris-Sorbonne Paris 4. She is co-editor of Globalizing Japan (Routledge, 2001), Crossed Gazes at International Cultural Heritage (in French and English, 2003) with the collaboration of UNESCO, and co-author of Grand Hotels in Asia, Modernity, Urban Dynamic and Sociability (in French 2003, Korean translation 2007). Okpyo Moon is Professor of Anthropology at the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea. Her major publications include From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life (In English, 1989); Consumption and Leisure Life in Contemporary Korea (In Korean, 1997); New Women: Images of Modern Women in Japan and Korea (In Korean, 2003) and Understanding Japanese Culture through Travel and Tourism (In Korean, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Culture of Travel (tabi no bunka) and Japanese Tourism
Sylvie Guichard-Anguis Part 1: Travelling History in the Present 1. The
Past and the Other in the Present: Kokunai Kokusaika Kanko- Domestic
International Tourism Nelson Graburn 2. The 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 Part 2:
Travel in Tradition, Time and Fantasy 4. Meanings of Tradition in
Contemporary Japanese Domestic Tourism Markus Oedewald 5. Fantasy Travel in
Time and Space: A New Japanese Phenomenon? Joy Hendry Part 3: Travelling
the Familiar Overseas 6. Japanese Tourists in Korea: Colonial and
Postcolonial Encounters Okpyo Moon 7. The Japanese Encounter with the
South: Japanese Tourists in Palau Shinji Yamashita 8. The 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