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Reading L anyu's tourism landscape: Hybridity and identity on O rchid I sland, T aiwan
Author(s) -
Yorgason Ethan,
Ming Hsia Li
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/sjtg.12023
Subject(s) - tourism , identity (music) , sociocultural evolution , autonomy , hybridity , reading (process) , modernization theory , sociology , humanities , geography , political science , anthropology , aesthetics , art , archaeology , law
This article analyses the creation and implications for cultural identity of a hybrid tourism landscape on T aiwan's O rchid I sland ( L anyu). It particularly argues that L anyu's native T ao people have begun to gain a somewhat stronger cultural identity and autonomy through this landscape. O rchid I sland underwent rapid modernization within the past 60 years. The article not only shows how tourism was imposed by T aiwan's government, but also how the T ao have made greater use of tourism's landscape over time for their own purposes. Not without sociocultural problems and contradictions, L anyu's tourism landscape has been polysemic enough to allow for gradually improving relationships between T aiwanese and T ao and for gradually increasing T ao participation in modernity on their own terms.