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The article focuses on domesticating anthropology study of tourism in China. It discusses the history of social sciences in China social sciences in China and Fei Xiaotong's initiation of domestication of anthropology in China. It further discusses developments in Chinese domestication of anthropology, with examples of tourism-related research including ethnic tourism and cultural heritage.

The article presents the author's comments as an anthropologist of tourism based in Japan on three papers addressing the anthropologies of tourism including a paper on the possibility of Ibero-American anthropologies of tourism, the Mexican way of studying tourism, and a paper on the anthropology of tourism in China.