Footprints in Paradise

Andrea E. Murray is an Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2012, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Asian Studies at Hamilton College, and lectured in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: "We Want Them to Know Nature!!"Chapter 1. Okinawa's Tourism ImperativeChapter 2. Slow Vulnerability in OkinawaChapter 3. Knowing and NoticingChapter 4. Ecologies of NearnessChapter 5. Healing and NatureConclusion: Yambaru Funbaru!ReferencesIndex

“… a wonderful ethnographic work…As readers navigate through shared narratives and collective histories, they cannot help but feel they are immersed within the Okinawan culture. Libraries with anthropological collections focusing on Pacific Island studies (with a primary focus on Japan) or cultural heritage tourism should have a copy of this work. Highly recommended.” • Choice“A solid contribution to the anthropology of tourism and to ecotourism studies in general that offers a variety of interesting case examples. This book successfully attempts to reconsider the primacy of the visual in touristic encounters, and to place Okinawa’s current tourism economies in a larger historical context of exploitation and dependency.” • Erve Chambers, University of Maryland“Murray’s work is comprehensive, thorough, and surprisingly moving. Her impassioned ethnography, centered upon the “slow” vulnerabilities of Okinawa, demonstrates anthropology as an art and science of commitment.” • Christine Yano, University of Hawai’i