Social interaction in visitor control at a Chinese Buddhist monastic site
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11411445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cora Un In Wong (0000-0001-5523-4355, Heritage and Tourism, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR, People’s Republic of China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-75 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourism Recreation Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0250-8281 • E-ISSN: 2320-0308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02508281.2018.1523297 |
| OpenAlex | W2891346421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article discusses some aspects and consequences of the distinctive way visitor control is practiced at an important Chinese Buddhist monastic site. While there is some literature on how specific religious and sacred sites open to lay visitors perform this function, there has been little research done on how visitor control styles differ across sites pertaining to different religions. The present article reports on an ethnographic study of some social interaction aspects of visitor control as it is practiced at Pu-Tuo-Shan, one of the four Sacred Mountains of Chinese Buddhism, which is today the destination of many secular visitors. It focuses on the central and – compared to the sacred sites of other religions – unusual role the resident members of its monasteries and nunneries play as hand-on custodians of their sacred space. It appears that, by and large, they make sense of this role in a Buddhist spirit and perform it without taking leave from their monastic training
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Control (management · Custodians · Ethnography · Management · Social function · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Visitor pattern · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Halal products and consumer behavior · History · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Designing Qualitative Research
From Ethics to Aesthetics
Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage
Motivations, experiences and perceived impacts of visitation at a Catholic monastery in New Zealand
Faith in heritage
Those who come to pray and those who come to look
Ideas of Transgression and Buddhist Monks
Serious pilgrims and frivolous tourists the chimera of tourism in the pilgrimages of Sri Lanka
Tourists and strippers
Mediated resistance
Cultural Tourism, Ceremony and the State in China
Forms of religious tourism
Buddhism and Tourism
Tourism development and cultural policies in China
Religious sites as tourism attractions in Europe
A golden calf in sacred space
Secular pilgrimages and sacred tourism in the Indian Himalayas
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |