Interpreting Japanese Society (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Approaches
Redaktion: Hendry, Joy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1986, Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in the field. In this newly revised and updated edition, the value of anthropological approaches to help understand an ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated.
While living and working in Japan the contributors have studied important areas of society. Religion, ritual, leisure, family and social relations are covered as are Japanese preconceptions of time and space - often so different from Western concepts.
This new edition of Interpreting Japanese Society shows what an important contribution research in such a rapidly changing industralised nation can make to the subject of anthropology. It will be welcomed by students and scholars alike who wish to find refreshing new insights on one of the world's most fascinating societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134691562
• Artikelnr.: 38453140

Autorenporträt

Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. She has 25 years experience specialising in the anthropological study of Japan and is the author of Understanding Japanese Society and Wrapping Culture

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Joy Hendry
Part 1 Time, space and models of action
Chapter 1 Time in the Japanese ritual year, Laurence Caillet
Chapter 2 Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ry?ky?s, Patrick Beillevaire
Chapter 3 The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan, Thomas Crump
Chapter 4 The question of space, Augustin Berque
Chapter 5 Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making, Eyal Ben-Ari
Part 2 Kinship and social relations
Chapter 6 Time, space and person in Japanese relationships, Jane M. Bachnik
Chapter 7 Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan?, Okpyo Moon
Chapter 8 Death rites in Japan in the twentieth century, Jan van Bremen
Chapter 9 A child in time, Roger Goodman
Part 3 Religion, science and cosmology
Chapter 10 Gods, ancestors and mediators, Teigo Yoshida
Chapter 11 The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages, Kazuto Matsunaga
Chapter 12 'Years of calamity', David C. Lewis
Chapter 13 Redefining Kuzaki, D.P. Martinez
Chapter 14 Science and religious movements in Japan, Mary Picone
Part 4 Leisure
Chapter 15 Sakariba, Sepp Linhart
Chapter 16 One over the seven, Brian Moeran
Chapter 17 Models of performance, James Valentine