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From Pilgrim to Tourist and Back Again: Travel as a Sacred Journey
- Author(s):
- Matthew Hughes (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Church history--Primitive and early church, Travel, Cultural property, Latin language
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Itineraria, tourism, anthropology of tourism, Pilgrimage, Early Christianity, Cultural anthropology, Mobility studies, Cultural heritage, Latin
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6TW0J
- Abstract:
- This paper explores the gray area that exists between the semantic differentiation of the terms pilgrim and tourist. Understanding all travel in light of Graburn's "sacred journey", the importance of this semantic difference is diminished. I use original Roman itineraria (travelogues) to trace travel to the Holy Land spanning nearly 1600 years. I include my own ethnographic field observations as a modern travelogue of a visit to the Holy Land. Ultimately, this paper provides a sweeping view of travel and its ability through fleeting moments of earnest self-fulfillment, memory creation, and embodied experience to function as a dynamic (re)creator of identity.
- Notes:
- Paper presented as a John C. Young Scholar at the annual John C. Young Symposium in May 2016.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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