Format:
Online-Ressource (312 p.)
ISBN:
9780415172677
Content:
First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropology in understanding this ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword to second edition; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction: the contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies; Time in the Japanese ritual year; Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ryukyus; The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan; The question of space: from Heidegger to Watsuji; Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making: an interpretive study; Time, space and person in Japanese relationships
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Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan?: the impact of tourism on a traditional Japanese villageDeath rites in Japan in the twentieth century; A child in time: changing adoption and fostering in Japan; Gods, ancestors and mediators: a cosmology from the South-western Archipelago of Japan; The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages; 'Years of calamity': yakudoshi observances in urban Japan; Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries; Science and religious movements in Japan: hi-tech healers and computerized cults
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Sakariba: zone of 'evaporation' between work and home?One over the seven: sake drinking in a Japanese pottery community; Models of performance: space, time and social organization in Japanese dance; Name index; Subject index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203012697
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Interpreting Japanese Society : Anthropological Approaches
Language:
English
Keywords:
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