ISBN:
0631229558
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047099696X
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1405184787
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9780470996966
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9781405184786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 518 p)
,
ill
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to anthropology 5
Parallel Title:
Print version Companion to the anthropology of Japan
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan
;
Anthropologie
Abstract:
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society - past and present - in accessible language. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nationalist research; eugenics and nation-building; majority and minority cultures; class and status; genders and sexualities; urban spectacle and rural "undevelopment"; domestic, corporate, and educational ideologies and practices; the mass media, leisure, and "infotainment" industries; women's and men's sports; fashion and food cultures; ideas of nature, life, and death; new and folk religions; and science and biotechnology.; Collectively, these chapters not only demonstrate Japan's significance for anthropological research but also help make Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a reference volume for scholars, but is also designed to serve as a primary text for courses in anthropology and sociology, history, and Japan and East Asian Studies
Abstract:
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society - past and present - in accessible language. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nationalist research; eugenics and nation-building; majority and minority cultures; class and status; genders and sexualities; urban spectacle and rural "undevelopment"; domestic, corporate, and educational ideologies and practices; the mass media, leisure, and "infotainment" industries; women's and men's sports; fashion and food cultures; ideas of nature, life, and death; new and folk religions; and science and biotechnology.; Collectively, these chapters not only demonstrate Japan's significance for anthropological research but also help make Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a reference volume for scholars, but is also designed to serve as a primary text for courses in anthropology and sociology, history, and Japan and East Asian Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: putting and keeping Japan in anthropology / Jennifer RobertsonThe imperial past of anthropology in Japan / Katsumi Nakao -- Japanese archaeology and cultural properties management: prewar ideology and postwar legacies / Walter Edwards -- Feminism, timelines and history-making / Tomomi Yamaguchi -- Making majority culture / Roger Goodman -- Political and cultural perspectives on "insider" minorities / Joshua Roth -- Japan's ethnic minority: Koreans / Sonia Ryang -- Shifting contours of class and status / Glenda S. Roberts -- Anthropology of Japanese corporate management / Tomoko Hamada -- Fashioning cultural identity: body and dress / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni -- Genders and sexualities / Sabine Frühstück -- On the "nature" of Japanese culture, or, is there a Japanese sense of nature? / D.P. Martinez -- The rural imaginary: landscape, village, tradition / Scott Schnell -- Tokyo's third rebuilding: new twists on old patterns / Roman Cybriwsky -- Japan's global village: a view from the world of leisure / Joy Hendry -- Formal caring alternatives: kindergartens and day-care centers / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Post-compulsory schooling and the legacy of imperialism / Brian J. McVeigh -- Theorizing the cultural importance of play: anthropological approaches to sports and recreation in Japan / Elise Edwards -- Popular entertainment and the music industry / Shuhei Hosokawa -- There's more than manga: popular nonfiction books and magazines / Laura Miller -- Biopower: blood, kinship, and eugenic marriage / Jennifer Robertson -- The ie (family) in global perspective / Emiko Ochiai -- Constrained person and creative agent: a dying student's narrative of self and others / Susan Orpett Long -- Nation, citizenship and cinema / Aaron Gerow -- Culinary culture and the making of a national cuisine / Katarzyna Cwiertka -- Historical, new, and "new" new religions / Ian Reader -- Folk religion and its contemporary issues / Noriko Kawahashi -- Women scientists and gender ideology / Sumiko Otsubo -- Preserving moral order: responses to biomedical technologies / Margaret Lock.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470996966
URL:
Volltext
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