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Author Murray, Andrea E.

Title Footprints in paradise : ecotourism, local knowledge, and nature therapies in Okinawa / Andrea E. Murray
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 171 pages) : illustrations
Summary In Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan,?ecotourism? promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise centers on how Okinawans? sense of place is transforming rapidly, along with language, landscapes, cultural traditions, and wildlife: from marginalized and exoticized island phenomena into global heritage resources worth cherishing by insiders and outsiders. Footprints in Paradise is intended for readers interested in the anthropology of US-Japan-Okinawa relations, tourism and island environments, the politics of ecological sustainability, and the shifting ethics of human-animal relationships in the early twenty-first century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ecotourism -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
Economic development -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Anthropology.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic development
Ecotourism
Traditional ecological knowledge
Japan -- Okinawa Island
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017015913
ISBN 9781785333873
1785333879
9781785334733
1785334735