“Perceptions of Cultural Heritage” and Landscape Change: An Anthropological Study of Kume Island, Okinawa, Japan
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(JPN) KAWAI Hironao, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the department of Social Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. His research focuses on social anthropology, the anthropology of landscape, urban anthropology |
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HOU Jianwei, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. His research focuses on the anthropology of landscape, urban anthropology, community building |
Received date: 2024-05-20
Revised date: 2024-08-16
Online published: 2025-12-16
Supported by
NIHU Global Area Studies Program, Maritime Asian and Oceanian Studies
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[Objective] This paper is intended to trace landscape transformations on Kume Island, Okinawa, between the 1970s and 1990s, focusing on the emergence of a phenomenon that could be called “heritage consciousness.”
[Methods/process] After the 1970s, Okinawa experienced a boom in tourism development, and villagers created numerous landscape elements such as red-tiled roofs, shissa, ishigantou, and utaki to represent Okinawa’s distinctive landscape. The proliferation of these landscape elements has certainly been influenced by Okinawa’s tourism policy, but to view it solely in terms of such political and economic dynamics is to lose sight of the essence of the landscape transformations on Kume Island. Therefore, this study focuses on why villagers created red-tiled roofs, utaki, and other landscape elements with their own hands, using the perspectives and methods of landscape anthropology. Specifically, we will trace the physical transformations of the landscape through mapping and examine the villagers’ stories, dreams, beliefs, social relations, and relationships with the environment through fieldwork to decipher how they have modified the landscape.
[Results/conclusion] My investigation reveals that the villagers perceive the red-tiled roofs, utaki, etc., as a “cultural heritage” they must protect and have been guided by a different set of concerns than tourism policy in reproducing the landscape.
Key words: landscape; cultural heritage; space; place; heritage consciousness; Okinawa
Hironao (JPN) KAWAI , Jianwei HOU . “Perceptions of Cultural Heritage” and Landscape Change: An Anthropological Study of Kume Island, Okinawa, Japan[J]. Landscape Architecture, 2024 , 31(10) : 58 -63 . DOI: 10.3724/j.fjyl.202405200275
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