Tourism as Fieldwork and the Nation as Media

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  • Abe Junichiro
    名古屋大学大学院環境学研究科博士後期課程

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  • フィールドワークとしての観光、メディアとしての民族
  • フィールドワークとしての観光、メディアとしての民族--小山栄三の民族接触論と1930-40年代における帝国日本の移民・観光政策
  • フィールドワーク ト シテ ノ カンコウ メディア ト シテ ノ ミンゾク コヤマ エイ ゾウ ノ ミンゾク セッショクロン ト 1930 40ネンダイ ニ オケル テイコク ニホン ノ イミン カンコウ セイサク
  • E. Koyama's Concept of Ethnic Contact and the Japanese Population and Tourism Policy in the 1930–40s
  • ―小山栄三の民族接触論と1930–40年代における帝国日本の移民・観光政策―

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Abstract

This paper explores the concept of “ethnic contact” used by a Japanese sociologist Eizo Koyama (1899–1983) to analyze three types of travel/displacement: immigration, tourism and fieldwork. Since the early 20th century, many fieldworkers had begun to authorize their own inter-cultural practices in contrast to other ones by tourists and immigrants, etc. But Koyama claimed that tourism involved the meaning of fieldwork as well as one of leisure activity. Why is it? By reconsidering his claim under the Japanese tourism policy in the 1930–<br>40s, I argue that it reflected the process in which tourists were perceived as agency mediating between different cultures while ethnic contact became an efficient medium for (re-)presenting national self-image. I also argue that his population policy attempted empire building through the media of contact between Japanese immigrants and natives in the colonies.

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