Description
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection that bridges the dichotomy between sacred and secular travel.
Trade Review"The contributors to
Intersecting Journeys focus on a diverse mix of pilgrim-tourists, producing a varied and nuanced image of what tourists want. Each small, gem-like chapter explores travel and shrine in a different ethnographic context, from the Spanish pilgrimage center of Santiago de Compostela to the temples of Kyoto; from British missionaries in New Guinea to Star Trek conventions." --
Anthropology News"A very welcome addition . . . to a field which is expanding far beyond the limits of the anthropology of religion."--John Eade, Sociology and Anthropology, Roehampton University, London, UK
Table of ContentsApproaches to the anthropology of pilgrimage and tourism Ellen Badone & Sharon R. Roseman; "They told what happened on the road": Narrative and the construction of experiential knowledge on the pilgrimage to Chimayo, New Mexico Paula Elizabeht Holms-Rodman; Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth": Landscapes of myth and memory at Walsingham Simon Coleman; The Kyoto tax strike: Buddhism, Shinto and tourism in Japan Nelson H. H. Graburn; Tourism and Holy Week in Leon, Spain Mark Tate; Santiago de Compestela in the year 2000: From religious centre to European City of Culture Sharon R. Roseman; Extending the metaphor: British missionaries as pilgrims in New Guinea Wayne Fife; Pilgrimage and the IDIC ethic: Exploring Star Trek convention attendance as pilgrimage Jennifer E. Port; Stories of the return: Pilgrimage and its aftermath Nancy L. Frey; Crossing boundaries; Exploring the borderlands of ethnography, tourism and pilgrimage Ellen Badone
