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An Anthropological lifetime in Japan
Author | : Joy Hendry |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 713 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004302877 |
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A collection of the publications and other writings of Joy Hendry, with a biographical introduction also explaining the choice and rationale for the research topics addressed.
An Anthropologist in Japan
Author | : Joy Hendry |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134645220 |
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In this highly personal account Joy Hendry relates her experiences of fieldwork in a Japanese town and reveals a fascinating cross-section of Japanese life. She sets out on a study of politeness but a variety of unpredictable events including a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her son's involvement with the family of a poweful local gangster, begin to alter the direction of her research. The book demonstrates the role of chance in the acquisition of anthropological knowledge and demonstrates how moments of insight can be embedded in everyday activity. An Anthropologist in Japan illuminates the education system, religious beliefs, politics, the family and the neighbourhood in modern Japan.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
Author | : Jennifer Robertson |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781405141451 |
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This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Author | : Wolfram Manzenreiter,Barbara Holthus |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317352723 |
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Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.
Through Japanese Eyes
Author | : Yohko Tsuji |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781978819573 |
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In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the panhuman experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging because it represents the antithesis of cherished American values, especially independence. Tsuji reveals that American culture, despite its seeming lack of guidance for those aging, plays a pivotal role in elders’ lives, simultaneously assisting and constraining them. Furthermore, the author’s lengthy period of research illustrates major changes in her interlocutors’ lives, incorporating their declines and death, and significant shifts in the culture of aging in American society as Tsuji herself gets to know American culture and grows into senescence herself. Through Japanese Eyes offers an ethnography of aging in America from a cross-cultural perspective based on a lengthy period of research. It illustrates how older Americans cope with the gap between the ideal (e.g., independence) and the real (e.g., needing assistance) of growing older, and the changes the author observed over thirty years of research.
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984-06-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521277868 |
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The cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.
kubo Diary Routledge Revivals
Author | : Brian Moeran |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-07-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136921629 |
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First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very personal and sensitive book depicts not only the intricate relationships among the valley people, but also those between them and the anthropologist who has come from the outside world to study them. The book has a dual purpose: to portray the intimate, day-to-day lives of people living in a remote part of Japan, and to describe how one anthropologist tries – and eventually fails – to "become at one" with his informants. Throughout, the book questions the premises of participant observation, which has become a mainstay of modern anthropology.
Japan an Anthropological Introduction
Author | : Harumi Befu |
Publsiher | : Chandler Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005787323 |
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