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Unwrapping Japan : society and culture in anthropological perspective / edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran and James Valentine.

Contributor(s): Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953- | Moeran, Brian, 1944- | Valentine, James, 1948-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1990]Copyright date: ©1990Description: viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824810503 (alk. paper) :Subject(s): National characteristics, Japanese | Ethnology -- Methodology | Ethnology -- Japan | Japan -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 952 LOC classification: DS830 | .U58 1990Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism, and Japan / Brian Moeran -- Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry -- On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine -- The feminine in Japanese folk religion / Teigō Yoshida -- Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka -- Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / Lola Martinez -- Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran -- Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Deconstructing an anthropological text : a moving account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman -- Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland -- Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi -- Wrapping-up : some general implications suggested by the essays / Eyal Ben-Ari.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS830 .U58 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182800606994

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism, and Japan / Brian Moeran -- Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry -- On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine -- The feminine in Japanese folk religion / Teigō Yoshida -- Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka -- Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / Lola Martinez -- Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran -- Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Deconstructing an anthropological text : a moving account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman -- Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland -- Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi -- Wrapping-up : some general implications suggested by the essays / Eyal Ben-Ari.

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