The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View Of Cultural Display (Materializing Culture) - Tapa blanda

Hendry, Joy

 
9781859733332: The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View Of Cultural Display (Materializing Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1859733336 ISBN 13: 9781859733332
Editorial: Berg Publishers, 2000

Sinopsis

At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese villages and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds Fairs . At the beginning of the 21st Century, Japanese tourists have reversed the gaze and now may visit a range of European countries, as well as several other cultural worlds, without ever leaving the shores of Japan. This book suggests that these and other exciting Asian theme parks pose a challenge to Western notions of leisure, education, and entertainment. Is this a case of reverse orientalism? Or is it simply a commercial follow-up on the success of Tokyo Disneyland? Is it an appropriation by one rich nation of a whole world of cultural delights from the countries that have influenced its twentieth-century success? Can the parks be seen as political statements about the heritage on which Japan now draws so freely? Or are they new forms of ethnographic museum? Examining Japanese parks in the context of a variety of historical examples of cultural display in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, as well as other Asian examples, the author calls into question the too easy adoption of postmodern theory as an ethnocentrically Western phenomenon and clearly shows that Japan has given theme parks an entirely new mode of interpretation.

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Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University.

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Editorial
Berg Publishers
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1859733336
ISBN 13 
9781859733332
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
288
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