Pilgrimages and spiritual quests in Japan / edited by Maria Rodríguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores P. Martinez.

SeriesJapan anthropology workshop series
Contents Travel as spiritual quest in Japan / Peter Ackermann -- Pilgrimage roads in Spain and Japan / Jesus González Valles -- Pilgrimage, space and identity : Ise (Japan) and Santiago de Compostela (Spain) / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- The concept of pilgrimage in Japan / Sachiko Usui -- The daily life of the henro on the island of Shikoku during the Edo period as mirror of Tokugawa society / Nathalie Kouamé -- Strangers and pilgrimage in village Japan / Teigo Yoshida -- Current increase in walking pilgrims / Eiki Hoshino -- New forms of pilgrimage in Japanese society / Maria Rodríguez del Alisal -- Old gods, new pilgrimages? A whistle stop tour of Japanese international theme parks / Joy Hendry -- Pilgrimages in Japan : how far are they determined by unconsciously held assumptions? / Peter Ackermann -- Agari-umāi, or the Eastern Tour : a Ryūkyūan royal ritual and its transformations / Patrick Beillevaire -- Takiguchi Shūzō and Joan Miró / Pilar Cabañas -- Hiroshima, mon amour : an inner pilgrimage to catharsis / Antonio Santos -- The 'initiation rites' and 'pilgrimages' of local civil servants in the age of internationalization / Hirochika Nakamaki -- Travel ethnography in Japan / Jan van Bremen -- A Japanese painter's quest : Suda Kunitarō's journey to Spain / Rosalia Medina Bermejo -- Pilgrimage and experience : an afterword / Dolores P. Martinez.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2006028070
ISBN0415323185 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415323185 (hbk.)
ISBN0203318501 (ebk.)
ISBN9780203318508 (ebk.)

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