Nature in translation : Japanese tourism encounters the Canadian Rockies / Shiho Satsuka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Satsuka, Shiho, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--Alberta--Banff National Park.

Japanese.

Tour guides (Persons)--Alberta--Banff National Park.

Tour guides (Persons).

Tour guides (Persons)--Japan.

Japanese--Travel--Alberta--Banff National Park.

Ecotourism--Alberta--Banff National Park.

Ecotourism.

Banff National Park (Alta.)--Description and travel.

Banff National Park (Alta.).

Japan--Civilization--21st century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local ""nature interpreters"" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada's magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific k

Contents:

Prologue: a journey to magnificent nature ... or why nature needs to be understood in translation

Introduction

Narratives of freedom

Populist cosmopolitanism

The co-modification of self

Gender in nature neverland

The interpretation of nature

The allure of ecology

Epilogue: Found in translation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822375609

0822375605

OCLC:

910966124