Japan: an Anthropological Introduction
Author: Harumi Befu
Publisher: Chandler Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
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Unwrapping Japan
Author: Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1136917039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan. Yet it seems that the more that is written about Japan and Japanism – its culture, society, people – the more mysterious it becomes. As well as exploring issues relating to advertising, tourism, women, festivals and the art world, the book depicts how the study of Japanese society contributes to anthropological theory and understanding. The editors use the term ‘unwrapping’ to provide insights into Japanese culture and relate these insights to broader problems and questions prevalent in contemporary anthropological discourse. The issues explored include the contribution of applied anthropology to theory; the relationship between tourism and nostalgia; the interplay of marginality and belonging; the role of advertising in gender relations; status in the art world and the place of Japanese genres of writing within anthropology texts.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
Author: Jennifer Robertson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-03-10
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 140518289X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Asia's Cultural Mosaic
Author: Grant Evans
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13:
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Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Author: Wolfram Manzenreiter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1317352726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-06-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521277860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.
An Anthropological lifetime in Japan
Author: Joy Hendry
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 9004302875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoy Hendry's collection demonstrates the value of an anthropological approach to understanding a particular society by taking the reader through her own discovery of the field, explaining her practice of it in Oxford and Japan, and then offering a selection of the results and findings she obtained. Her work starts with a study of marriage made in a small rural community, continues with education and the rearing of children, and later turns to consider polite language, especially amongst women. This lead into a study of "wrapping" and cultural display, for example of gardens and theme parks, which became a comparative venture, putting Japan in a global context. Finally the book sums up change through the period of Hendry's research.
Waiting for Wolves in Japan
Author: John Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780199255184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that the wolf would be the saviour of upland areas that are suffering from wildlife pestilence.
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
Author: Patrick W. Galbraith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 147800701X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
Precarious Japan
Author: Anne Allison
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0822377241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.
