Reading List

This page lists the assigned reading for this class.

Week 1

Tuesday, October 3: Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, Chapters 2, 3, 4: pp. 39-89.

Thursday, October 5: Orvar Lofgren, On Holiday: The History of Vacation, Introduction and Part 1: Landscapes and Mindscapes

Week 2

Tuesday, October 10: Tim Tangherlini, "Choson Memories: Spectatorship, Ideology, and the Korean Folk Village"
Recommended Reading: Edensor, Tourists at the Taj, Chapter 1: Constructing Tourist Space, pp. 1-28

Thursday, October 12: Joy Hendry, “Foreign Country Theme Parks” and “...or Disneyfication?”
Timothy S. Oakes, "Ethnic Tourism in Rural Guizhou: Sense of Place and the Commerce of Ethnicity"

Week 3

Tuesday, October 17: Robert E. Wood, "Tourism and the State: Ethnic Options and the Constructions of Otherness"
Ben Hillman, "Paradise under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan"

Thursday, October 19: Lutz and Collins, Reading National Geographic (1993), pp. 15-33, pp. 47-85
Weisenfeld, "Touring

Japan

as Museum: NIPPON and Other Imperialists Travelogues" (2000), Positions 8 (3)

Week 4

Tuesday, October 24: E.S. Kim, "Itaewon as an Alien Space within the Nation-State and a Place in the Globalization Era"
Recommended reading: Katherine Moon, Sex among Allies

Thursday, October 26: Hyung Il Pai, "The Creation of National Treasures and Monuments: The 1916 Japanese Laws on the Preservation of Korean Remains and Relics and Their Colonial Legacies"

Week 5

Tuesday, October 31: Midterm Exam

Thursday, November 2: Peter Siegenthaler, "The Ningen Kokuho: A New Symbol for the Japanese Nation"

Friday, November 3: Reading: Elsner and Cardinal, The Cultures of Collecting, Introduction and Chapter 1: The System of Collecting
Recommended reading: Susan Pearce: Museums, Objects, and Collections, Chapter 1 and 2

Week 6

Tuesday, November 7: Luke Roberts, https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/627
Peter Siegenthaler, "Creation Myths for the Preservation of Tsumago Post-Town"
Recommended reading: Sightseeing in Kochi City

Thursday, November 9: Hyung Il Pai, "The Politics of

Korea

's Past: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula"

Week 7

Tuesday, November 14: Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, Chapter 1, pp. 1-22 and Chapter 8, pp. 191-215
Laurel Kendall, "Peoples Under Glass: A Tale of Two Museums"

Thursday, November 16: Sheila Miyoshi-Jaeger, "Manhood, the State and the Yongsan War Memorial"
Recommended reading: A trip to Panmunjeom and the DMZ's Wikipedia page

Friday, November 17: Liu Li, "Who Were the Ancestors? The Origins of Chinese Ancestral Cult and Racial Myths"

Week 8

Tuesday, November 21: Andrea Louie, "When you are Related to the 'Other': (Re)locating the Chinese Homeland in Asian American Politics through Cultural Tourism"

Thursday, November 23: Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 9

Tuesday, November 28: James L. Hevia, “World Heritage, National Culture and the Restoration of Chengde”

Thursday, November 30: Student Presentations

Week 10

Tuesday, December 5: Student Presentations

Thursday, December 7: Class review for final exam

Friday, December 8: Paper Due

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 13, 8:00 A.M.