ISBN:
0415470013
,
0203886674
,
9780415470018
,
9780203886670
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xv, 221 p)
,
ill., maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Japan anthropology workshop series
Paralleltitel:
Print version Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
DDC:
306.4/819089956
Schlagwort(e):
Tourism
;
National characteristics, Japanese
;
Travelers
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: The culture of travel (tabi no bunka) and Japanese tourism; Part I Travelling history in the present; 1 The past and the other in the present: Kokunai kokusaika kanko - domestic international tourism; 2 The heroic Edo-ic: Travelling the history highway in today's Tokugawa Japan; 3 Japanese inns (ryokan) as producers of Japanese identity; Part II Travel in tradition, time and fantasy; 4 Meanings of tradition in contemporary Japanese domestic tourism
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5 Fantasy travel in time and space: A new Japanese phenomenon?Part III Travelling the familiar overseas; 6 Japanese tourists in Korea: Colonial and post-colonial encounters; 7 The Japanese encounter with the South: Japanese tourists in Palau; 8 The search for the real thing: Japanese tourism to Britain; 9 All roads lead to home: Japanese culinary tourism in Italy; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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