ISBN:
9789004302877
,
9004302875
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
The writings of 8
Uniform Title:
Essays Selections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Hendry, Joy
;
Hendry, Joy
;
Ethnology
;
Anthropology
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Anthropology
;
Ethnology
;
Manners and customs
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Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Foreign Country Theme Parks: A New Theme or an Old Japanese Pattern?The Japanese Tattoo: Play or Purpose?; Old Gods, New Pilgrimages: A Whistle-stop Tour of Japanese International Theme Parks; Shakespeare on Show in Japan: An Anthropological Analysis of Cultural Display; "The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy ... They All Make for a Good Outing": Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations; Some Sundry Contributions; Nursing in Japan; Food as Social Nutrition? The Japanese Case; Drinking and Gender in Japan; The Ritual of the Revolving Towel
Abstract:
Honorifics as Dialect: The Expression and Manipulation of Boundaries in JapaneseThe Role of the Professional Housewife; Wrapping and Japanese Presentation: Is this Waste or Care?; The Sacred Power of Wrapping; Cultural Display; Gardens and the Wrapping of Space in Japan: Some Benefits of a Balinese Insight; Nature Tamed: Gardens as a Microcosm of Japan's View of the World; Who is Representing Whom? Gardens, Theme Parks and the Anthropologist in Japan; Pine, Ponds and Pebbles: Gardens and Visual Culture; The Whole World as Heritage? Foreign Country Theme Parks in Japan
Abstract:
Introduction; Fieldwork; From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location; The Paradox of Friendship in the Field: Analysis of a Long-Term Anglo-Japanese Relationship; Marriage amd Some Early Theoretical Contributions; Is Science Maintaining Tradition in Japan?; The Modification of Tradition in Modern Japanese Weddings and Some Implications for the Social Structure; Tomodachi kō: Age-Mate Groups in Northern Kyushu; Shoes: The Early Learning of an Important Distinction in Japanese Society; 'The Fix' in Japanese Society
Abstract:
Marriage and the Family in Modernising JapanThe Continuing Case of Japan; Child Rearing and Education; Becoming Japanese: A Social Anthropological View of Child-Rearing; Kindergartens and the Transition from Home to School Education; Peer Pressure and Kindergartens in Japan; Children's Contests in Japan; St Valentine and St Nicholas Travel Abroad: Success and Internationalisation in Japanese Education; Individualism and Individuality: Entry into a Social World; Bags, Objects and Education in Japan; Material Objects and Mathematics in the Life of the Japanese Primary School Child
Abstract:
Politeness, Housewives and the Wrapping IdeaThe Use and Abuse of Politeness Formulae: Some Social Implications; Respect, Solidarity or Contempt? Politeness and Communication in Modern Japan; Humidity, Hygiene, or Ritual Care: Some Thoughts on Wrapping as a Social Phenomenon; To Wrap or not to Wrap: Politeness and Penetration in Ethnographic Inquiry; The Armour of Honorific Speech: Some Lateral Thinking about Keigo; Politeness and Formality in Japanese Social Relations; Order, Elegance and Purity: The Life of the Professional Housewife
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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