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Record Nr.

UNISA996198214803316

Autore

Hendry Joy.

Titolo

An anthropologist in Japan : glimpses of life in the field / / Joy Hendry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-64522-8

1-134-64523-6

1-280-33297-2

0-203-01981-4

0-203-15917-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

ASA research methods in social anthropology

Disciplina

306/.0952

Soggetti

Ethnology - Japan - Fieldwork

Women ethnologists - Japan

Japan Social life and customs

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 (p. 155) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Settling in and making contacts; Arrivaland an invitation; The neighbourhood: a 'world of blossom and willow'; The hospitaland a strange encounter; The schooland a fight; A pilgrims' trail; Shiroyama, the Satomi legend and a new look at power; Events to attend; Wrapping the body: two local festivals; The housewives' 'Club for Life'; Cubs, sports and a shock; Suicide, funerals and the well-wrapped gift; Paper walls and flowers at the bank; The role of experts; A foreigner at the 'Culture Festival'

'Your Japanese is psychological torture'A volcanic eruption; Tennis and the 'surreal' dinner; Concerts, cakes and spiritual communication; Building a framework for analysis; New Year: shrine, mochi and a tea ceremony; Valentine's Day, and the 6th years pick on Hamish; The gang-leader's wife; Unwrapping the argument; An artistic farewell; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this highly personal account Joy Hendry relates her experiences of fieldwork in a Japanese town and reveals a fascinating cross-section of Japanese life. She sets out on a study of politeness but a variety of unpredictable events including a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her



son's involvement with the family of a poweful local gangster, begin to alter the direction of her research. The book demonstrates the role of chance in the acquisition of anthropological knowledge and demonstrates how moments of insight can be embedded in everyday activity. An Anthropologist in Japan illumi