"... a wonderful ethnographic work...As readers navigate through shared narratives and collective histories, they cannot help but feel they are immersed within the Okinawan culture. Libraries with anthropological collections focusing on Pacific Island studies (with a primary focus on Japan) or cultural heritage tourism should have a copy of this work. Highly recommended." * Choice



"A solid contribution to the anthropology of tourism and to ecotourism studies in general that offers a variety of interesting case examples. This book successfully attempts to reconsider the primacy of the visual in touristic encounters, and to place Okinawa's current tourism economies in a larger historical context of exploitation and dependency." * Erve Chambers, University of Maryland



"Murray's work is comprehensive, thorough, and surprisingly moving. Her impassioned ethnography, centered upon the "slow" vulnerabilities of Okinawa, demonstrates anthropology as an art and science of commitment." * Christine Yano, University of Hawai'i