Shiho Satsuka

Nature in Translation

Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies

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Produktbeschreibung

In Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Canadian Rockies. By presenting nature in ways attuned to Japanese culture, these guides translate nature, a process that makes visible the cultural construction of nature and subjectivities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358800
• ISBN-10: 0822358808
• Artikelnr.: 41121527

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Transliteration  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be
Understood in Translation  1
Introduction  9
1. Narratives of Freedom  39
2. Populist Cosmopolitanism  67
3. The Co-Modification of Self  95
4. Gender in Nature Neverland  122
5. The Interpretation of Nature  147
6. The Allure of Ecology  183
Epilogue. Found in Translation  213
Notes  223
Reference List  241
Index  255