travel is motivated by social, economic, and political reasons, holy or religious/Islamic concerns, or inevitably mixed reasons—a combination of profane and sacred rationales. Lastly, it also scrutinizes the transnational and local significance of rihla
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Islam, Travel, and Learning
A Case Study on Indonesian Muslim Student Diasporas in Saudi Arabia
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
The Travels of José Uriel García and Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa
Rupert J. M. Medd
printing press, 6 Mariátegui embraced journalism and later created his own journal, Amauta , 7 where he made valuable contributions as an essayist and editor. Travel was a fundamental necessity to Mariátegui, and while in Europe he immersed himself in
Time and the Other in Nineteenth-Century German Travel Writing on Africa
Tracey Reimann-Dawe
analysis of the works of three preunification Afrikareisende, Heinrich Barth, Gerhard Rohlfs, and Gustav Nachtigal, demonstrates that the perception and relevance of time while traveling, and the engagement with cultures that adhere to different forms of
Travel Writers and Traveling Writers in Australasia
Responses to Travel Literatures and the Problem of Authenticity
Helen Bones
writing and traveling throughout the colonial world and The Law Bringers was the result of a two-year trip into the Yukon. If the reviewer had known of her well-researched but fleeting interaction with many of the places she described, would he (to make
The Spectacular Traveling Woman
Australian and Canadian Visions of Women, Modernity, and Mobility between the Wars
Sarah Galletly
lacuna in the canonical literature of these two nations. Magazines regularly featured travel-related advertising and fiction, and thus offer a natural starting point to look for uncollected stories of this space. In “Trafficking Literature: Travel
Collecting and Memory
A Study of Travel Archives
Lee Arnold and Thomas van der Walt
People’s travel collections serve as a memory aid to help them write travelogues, novels, or scientific reports when they return home. They may also just have been a way to document a voyage or journey for future generations. Or it could
At the Threshold to the New World
Equator Crossings, Sunsets, and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques
Michael Bies
marked since the early sixteenth century by way of distinct ceremonies. In travel literature, however, the crossing has been represented in even more far-reaching ways. Here, not only are the rites of passage staged on board the ship described; in
Travel and Transformation
A Diachronic Study of the Changing Concept of Weisheng in Chinese Journals, 1880-1930
Bo Hu
mainly on the notion of traveling concepts , this article highlights especially the transfer and transformation as a process, the initiating and resistant agents, their motivations as well as the role of public journals in the process. This article makes
“We Are a Traveling People”
Tourism, Travel Journalism, and the Construction of a Modern National Identity in Sweden
Emilia Ljungberg
article about tourism. The article was titled “We Are a Traveling People,” and the main theme was an evaluation of the Swede as a traveler. In a humorous tone the journalist claimed that the Swede is a popular guest abroad who is not too stingy but who is
The Potentiality to Move
Mobility and Future in Digital Nomads’ Practices
Patrícia Matos and Elisenda Ardévol
entrepreneurs pursue as a lifestyle. It is aligned with the digital nomad trend, publicized mostly through social media as a lifestyle that combines remote work and travel, which has grown in the last decade, especially among workers of the new creative economy