FYI, they need anthropological input!
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:32:20 -0600
From: "Galt, Anthony" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: FW: Journeys
Anthropologists avanti! T.G.
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We are getting lots of lit/history articles for 'Journeys' but the word is
only slowly moving with the anthropologists. Would it be possible to
post this notice again? We would be very grateful.
Best wishes
Garry Marvin
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW JOURNAL
Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing
Humans have always travelled. The journeys have been for the
sake of discovery, for commerce, trade, and employment, to seek
refuge, for learning and science, to fulfil religious obligations, to
impose political and administrative systems and for pure pleasure.
Some journeys have been physical, some imaginary, others
spiritual: all have involved notions and experiences of change and
given new meanings, shapes and significance to the world for
those engaged in travelling. The experiences, reflections, thoughts
and commentaries of travellers have also changed how others have
perceived and understood other places, cultures and societies.
Travel writing and other representations of journeys as a cultural
practice and product is engaging the attention of scholars and
commentators in a wide range of disciplines and its study is
becoming recognised as an important academic field. In part this is
a recognition of the existence of a broad range of texts which can
be examined and interpreted in terms of their social and cultural
significance. It is also related to the fact that, in recent years the
writings about travel have become ever more sophisticated -
reflecting the diversity and sophistication of modern travellers and
tourists. People are encouraged to seek out new experiences in
different countries and cultures through what they have read and
their experiences feed back into written commentaries on travel
and tourism. So popular is travel writing as a genre that major
bookshops have entire sections devoted to the area and there are
even bookshops which stock nothing but books of this type.
There is now a substantial literature in this area for which
Journeys will offer a specialist forum for articles, debate and
reviews. The remit of Journeys is to reflect the rich diversity of
travels and journeys as social and cultural practices as well as their
significance as metaphorical processes. It will be a broad-based
interdisciplinary journal of particular significance for those
interested in the studies of travel writing from the perspectives of,
for example, anthropology, social history, religious studies, human
geography, sociology, literary criticism and cultural studies.
JOURNEYS - VOLUME 1 [DOUBLE ISSUE]
This double edition of Journeys Vol 1 Nos 1/2 [200+] pages is
now
available. In keeping with its inter-disciplinary remit this edition
has
contributions from the perspectives of history, anthropology,
sociology,
literature and critical studies.
Joan-Pau Rubies, Travel Writing as Genre: Facts, Fictions and the
Invention
of a Scientific
Discourse in Early Modern Europe
Jill Steward, The Adventures of Miss Brown, Miss Jones and Miss
Robinson:
Tourist Writing and
Tourist Performance from 1860 to 1914
Da Zheng, Home Constructions: Chinese Poetry and American
Landscape in
Chiang Yee's Travel
Writings
Andrew Russell, The Missing and the Met: Routing Clifford
Among the Yakha
in Nepal and NE
India
Norman Buchignani, Idleness in South Africa: Ethnographic
Methods and
'Hottentot' Travel
Accounts
Dean MacCannell, Symbolic Capital: Urban Design for Tourism
There are also reviews of :
Denis Cosgrove (1999), Mappings, London: Reaktion
James Duncan and Derek Gregory (eds) 1999) Writes of Passage:
Reading Travel Writing, London: Routledge
Shelly Errington (1998) The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and
Other
Tales of Progress, Berekeley, University of California Press
Nancy Louise Frey (1998) Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road
to
Santiago, Berkeley: University of California Press
Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan (1998) Tourists With
Typewriters:
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing, Ann Arbor,
University of Michigan Press
Giles Milton (1999) Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's
Courage
Changed the Course of History, London: Hodder and Stoughton
Justin Stagl (1995) A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel
1550-
1800, London: Harwood Academic Publishers
Those interested in further details, or for information about
submissions,
please contact the Editorial Office at
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or, for subscriptions
www.berghahnbooks.com
Editorial Office
Journeys
University of Surrey Roehampton
80 Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5SL
UK
Tel: (44) 020 8392 3170
Fax: (44) 020 8392 3518
