ISBN:
9780415740289
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (185 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Parallel Title:
Print version The Japanese Family : Touch, Intimacy and Feeling
DDC:
306.850952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child's life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It shows how touch and physical contact are important for engendering intimacy and feeling, and how intimacy and feeling continue even when physical contact lessens. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the West, on body, mind, intimacy and feeling, and compares the position in Japan to practices elsewhere. Overall, the book makes a signif
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I; 1 Introduction; Background to the book; Vignette one: a hugless farewell; Vignette two: a nude awakening; Vignette three: an undetectable filled space; Vignette four: the bakappuru that was I... almost; Vignette five: families farewelling like strangers; Perceptual differences; Need for the book; Positioning the study of touch and intimacy; Theoretical underpinnings to touch and intimacy; Connection via meeting; Touching bodies; Alternative discourses of embodiment in Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
An ethnographic approachParticipant-observations; Interviews; Sampling; Organisation of the book; Part II; 2 Parent-child touch: (dis)locating the body in skinship; The Japanese family; Parent-child relationships; Establishing skinship: mother-child relationships; Establishing skinship: father-child relationships; Summary; 3 Exclusion and inclusion in the bedroom; Vignette six: the Mizuno family; Vignette seven: the Fukushima family; Co-sleeping in Japan; Exclusive family relations; Exclusive relations in soine: on the other side of the river; Inclusive family relations
Description / Table of Contents:
Inclusive relations in soine: the river that flows through the familySummary; Part III; 4 Moving into the big, wide world; Pre-schooling in Japan; The daycare context: Kikyō hoikuen; Kikyō hoikuen: the family outside the home; Hiyoko Gumi (Young Chicks Class); Vignette eight: finding security through onbu; Sumire Gumi (Violets Class); Sakura Gumi (Cherry Blossoms Class); Kikyō Gumi (Chinese Bellflower Class); Vignette nine: can we sleep together?; Summary; 5 Arriving to a conceptual understanding of belonging through the felt meanings of touch; Transitional touch
Description / Table of Contents:
Securing the space of intimacy in the Japanese family: touching at depthFeeling through sight; The home is where the heart is; Being-together; Tone and presence through absence; Filled space: ma and air; Summary; 6 How touch feels after five; Stages of development; Age; Beginning school; The birth of a new sibling; Public discourses: why touch stops; Public/private dichotomies; It's because we're Japanese!; Summary; Conclusion; Vignette ten: a touching return; The Japanese culture of embodiment; Touching at depth: developing the social theory of the body; Recommendations for further research
Description / Table of Contents:
Living skinshipGlossary of terms; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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