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 how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.
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 how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.
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, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Asian Studies at Hamilton College.
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List of Figures 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
List of Figures 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
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