Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Andrea E. Murray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-737-2 (ISBN)

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The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves through the lens of the visiting tourist consumer, and as their language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. The rediscovery and revaluing of local ecological knowledge strengthens Okinawan or Uchinaa cultural heritage, despite the controversial presence of US military bases amidst a hegemonic Japanese state.

Andrea E. Murray is an Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2012, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Asian Studies at Hamilton College, and lectured in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: "We Want Them to Know Nature!!"

Chapter 1. Okinawa's Tourism Imperative

Chapter 2. Slow Vulnerability in Okinawa

Chapter 3. Knowing and Noticing

Chapter 4. Ecologies of Nearness

Chapter 5. Healing and Nature

Conclusion: Yambaru Funbaru!

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-80073-737-8 / 1800737378
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-737-2 / 9781800737372
Zustand	Neuware