ABSTRACT
Shuzo Ishimori has described how he obtained a government grant for the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology to establish a three-year seminar on the anthropology of tourism. The grant enabled scholars from other universities and research institutions in Japan and elsewhere to visit the museum every month. The first year was spent discussing hospitality. Apart from giving people an example of how to do things properly, the fact lends credibility to the suggestion in this volume that hospitality is indeed one of the founding issues of the field. In the early and middle parts of the twentieth century, Malinowski headed the Rockefeller-funded International African Institute, while Radcliffe-Brown became amicus curiae on the side of groups of southern African peoples legally defending their customary marriage payments in the face of accusations of bride purchase. Large parts of the wider social anthropological canon and curriculum are increasingly affected in some way by tourism and the issues with which it is associated.
