ISBN:
0824842375
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0824826701
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0824828178
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9780824842376
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9780824826703
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9780824828172
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 254 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Martinez, D.P. (Dolores P.), 1957- Identity and ritual in a Japanese diving village
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Rites and ceremonies
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Japanese Ethnic identity
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Fishing villages
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Diving
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Diving
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Ethnology
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Fishing villages
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Japanese ; Ethnic identity
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Manners and customs
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Rites and ceremonies
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Dorpen
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Riten
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Visserij
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Toerisme
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Etnisch bewustzijn
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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Japan ; Kuzaki-chō (Toba-shi)
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Rites et cérémonies - Japon - Kuzaki (Toba)
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Japonais - Identité ethnique - Japon - Kuzaki (Toba)
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Villages de pêcheurs - Japon - Kuzaki (Toba)
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Plongeon - Japon - Kuzaki (Toba)
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Ethnologie - Japon - Kuzaki (Toba)
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Kuzaki-chō (Toba-shi, Japan) Social life and customs
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Kuzaki (Toba, Japon) - Mœurs et coutumes
Abstract:
On the anthropologist and her subject -- Japan and the Ama -- Kuzaki : making place and identity -- Organizing the village : Dōkyūsei, the Kumi-ai, and the Nifune Festival -- Keeping the Ie afloat, part 1 : diving and women's rituals -- Keeping the Ie afloat, part 2 : fishing, tourism, and New Year's rituals -- Elders and ancestors : making and becoming -- Ritual, gender, and identity.
Abstract:
Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a place and its people; the importance of ritual in a country that describes itself as nonreligious; and the relationship between men and women in a society where gender divisions are still very much in place. Kuzaki is, for the anthropologist, both a microcosm of modernity and an attempt to bring the past into the present. But it must also be understood as a place all of its own. In the 1980s it was one of the few villages where female divers (ama) still collected abalone and other shellfish and where some of its inhabitants continued to make a living as fishermen. Kuzaki was also a kambe, or sacred guild, of Ise Shrine, the most important Shinto shrine in modern Japan--home to Amaterasu, the sun goddess. Kuzaki's rituals affirmed a national identity in an era when attitudes to modernity and Japaneseness were being challenged by globalization. Martinez enhances her fascinating ethnographic description of a single diving village with a critique of the way in which the anthropology of Japan has developed. The result is a sophisticated investigation by a senior scholar of Japanese studies that, while firmly grounded in empirical data, calls on anthropological theory to construct another means of understanding Japan--both as a society in which the collective is important and as a place where individual ambitions and desires can be expressed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn54x
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