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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785126703321

Autore

Moeran Brian <1944->

Titolo

OĢƒkubo diary [[electronic resource] ] : portrait of a Japanese valley / / Brian Moeran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-92162-1

0-203-84465-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

306.0952

Soggetti

Ethnologists

Ethnology - Japan

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Japan Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint.  Originally published: Stanford California : Stanford University Press, 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I: The River's Flow; II: Scattered Blossoms; III: Voice of the Cicada; Sources of Quotations and Allusions

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very personal and sensitive book depicts not only the intricate relationships among the valley people, but also those between them and the anthropologist who has come from the outside world to study them.The book has a dual purpose: to portray the intimate, day-to-day lives of people living