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Asian Parks
Author_Joy Hendry
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China Folk Culture Villages
Colonial Williamsburg
Contemporary Turkish Art
cross-cultural representation
cultural display
Den Gamle
Disney Parks
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ethnographic exhibition
Grand Bazaar
Green Gables
heritage commodification
Himalayan Rock
Huis Ten Bosch
Japan British Exhibition
Japanese 'villages'
Japanese Gardens
Japanese Pavilion
Japanese theme park analysis
Japanese Theme Parks
Le Coq
leisure studies
Main Street USA
museology theory
Positive American Comment
postmodern theory
replica environments
Taman Mini
Tokyo Disneyland
Toro Iseki
Water Falls
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859733288
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University.
