Record Nr.

UNISA996210354403316

Titolo

A companion to the anthropology of Japan / / edited by Jennifer Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Publishing, , [2005]
©2005

ISBN


1-78268-419-0
1-280-19867-2
9786610198672
0-470-70489-6
1-4051-8478-7
0-470-99696-X
1-4051-4145-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to Anthropology ; ; Volume 5

Classificazione

73.00

Disciplina

306.0952

Soggetti

Ethnology - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: putting and keeping Japan in anthropology / Jennifer Robertson -- The imperial past of anthropology in Japan / Katsumi Nakao -- Japanese archaeology and cultural properties management: prewar ideology and postwar legacies / Walter Edwards -- Feminism, timelines and history-making / Tomomi Yamaguchi -- Making majority culture / Roger Goodman -- Political and cultural perspectives on "insider" minorities / Joshua Roth -- Japan's ethnic minority: Koreans / Sonia Ryang -- Shifting contours of class and status / Glenda S. Roberts -- Anthropology of Japanese corporate management / Tomoko Hamada -- Fashioning cultural identity: body and dress / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni -- Genders and sexualities / Sabine Frühstück -- On the "nature" of Japanese culture, or, is there a Japanese sense of nature? / D. P. Martinez -- The rural imaginary: landscape, village, tradition / Scott Schnell -- Tokyo's third rebuilding: new twists on old patterns / Roman Cybriwsky -- Japan's global village: a view from the world of

leisure / Joy Hendry -- Formal caring alternatives: kindergartens and day-care centers / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Post-compulsory schooling and the legacy of imperialism / Brian J. McVeigh -- Theorizing the cultural importance of play: anthropological approaches to sports and recreation in Japan / Elise Edwards -- Popular entertainment and the music industry / Shuhei Hosokawa -- There's more than manga: popular nonfiction books and magazines / Laura Miller -- Biopower: blood, kinship, and eugenic marriage / Jennifer Robertson -- The ie (family) in global perspective / Emiko Ochiai -- Constrained person and creative agent: a dying student's narrative of self and others / Susan Orpett Long -- Nation, citizenship and cinema / Aaron Gerow -- Culinary culture and the making of a national cuisine / Katarzyna Cwiertka -- Historical, new, and "new" new religions / Ian Reader -- Folk religion and its contemporary issues / Noriko Kawahashi -- Women scientists and gender ideology / Sumiko Otsubo -- Preserving moral order: responses to biomedical technologies / Margaret Lock.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793819003321