Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism

213 Pages·2004·1 MB·English

by  Ellen Badone

Intersecting Journeys
The Anthropology of
Pilgrimage and Tourism

Edited by Ellen Badone
and Sharon R. Roseman
Intersecting Journeys

Intersecting Journeys
the anthropology of
pilgrimage and tourism
edited by
Ellen Badone and
Sharon R. Roseman
university of illinois press
urbana and chicago
© 2004 by the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Intersecting journeys : the anthropology of pilgrimage
and tourism / edited by Ellen Badone and Sharon R. Roseman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-252-02940-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Pilgrims and pilgrimages. 2. Culture and tourism.
I. Badone, Ellen. II. Roseman, Sharon R., 1963–
bl619.p5I67 2004
306.6—dc22 2004002538
For my parents, Gloria and Frank—S. R.
For Steve, Amy, and Robin—E. B.

contents
Acknowledgments / ix
1. Approaches to the Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism
Ellen Badone and Sharon R. Roseman / 1
2. “They Told What Happened on the Road”: Narrative and the
Construction of Experiential Knowledge on the Pilgrimage
to Chimayo, New Mexico
Paula Elizabeth Holmes-Rodman / 24
3. Pilgrimage to “England’s Nazareth”: Landscapes of Myth
and Memory at Walsingham
Simon Coleman / 52
4. Santiago de Compostela in the Year 2000: From Religious Center
to European City of Culture
Sharon R. Roseman / 68
5. Stories of the Return: Pilgrimage and Its Aftermaths
Nancy L. Frey / 89
6. Tourism and Holy Week in León, Spain
Mark Tate / 110
7. The Kyoto Tax Strike: Buddhism, Shinto, and Tourism in Japan
Nelson H. H. Graburn / 125
8. Extending the Metaphor: British Missionaries as Pilgrims in
New Guinea
Wayne Fife / 140
9. Pilgrimage and the IDIC Ethic: Exploring Star Trek Convention
Attendance as Pilgrimage
Jennifer E. Porter / 160
10. Crossing Boundaries: Exploring the Borderlands of Ethnography,
Tourism, and Pilgrimage
Ellen Badone / 180
Contributors / 191
Index / 193
acknowledgments
We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, McMaster University, and Memorial University of Newfoundland for
their financial support of our research and this book project. We would also
like to thank our many students, colleagues, and friends who provided re-
search assistance and advice, in particular: Stephen R. G. Jones, Wayne Fife,
Patricia Lane, Faydra Shapiro, Amanda White, Vicki Hill, Christine Aylward,
and Libby Toews. We are very grateful to Larry Taylor and a second anony-
mous reviewer for reading the manuscript so carefully and for providing many
helpful suggestions. Throughout the publication process, Liz Dulany and her
staff at the University of Illinois Press have provided excellent editorial advice.