1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0108853

Autore

Salvato, Vincenzo

Titolo

Foggia : città territorio genti : storia documentata dall'11. secolo ai giorni nostri / Vincenzo Salvato ; presentazione di Giuseppe Salvato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Foggia : C. Grenzi, [2005]

ISBN

88-8431-155-1

Descrizione fisica

329 p., [42] c. di tav. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Soggetti

Foggia - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785156803321

Autore

Chiba Kaeko

Titolo

Japanese women, class and the tea ceremony : the voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan / / Kaeko Chiba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93922-9

1-136-93923-7

1-282-78143-X

9786612781438

0-203-84714-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Japan anthropology workshop series

Disciplina

305.40952

Soggetti

Japanese tea ceremony - Ura Senke school

Women - Japan - Social conditions

Japanese tea masters - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Identity work; 3 Time, space and the experience of chado; 4 Bourdieu's theory of capital and discourses on class; 5 Gender; 6 Class; 7 Raison d'être; Appendix A: Interviewees' and informants' background; Appendix B: Akita city; Glossary; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chad?) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chad? system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu's idea of cultural capital, it explores the various meanings of chad? for Akita women and argues that chad? has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality. Chad? practitioners focus on tea procedu