Comparing cultures
Subtitle: readings on contemporary Japan for American writers
By: [edited by] Merry I. White, Sylvan Barnet.
Contributors: White, Merry I., 1941-; Barnet, Sylvan.
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Readers -- Japan.; Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; Japan -- Civilization -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes: Editors' Notes To Accompany Comparing Cultures (50 p.).
Table of contents: value: Thinking about culture; value: Thinking about texts; value: Growing up; value: Courtship, love, and marriage; value: Women's roles; value: Growing older; value: The meaning and practice of work; value: Leisure and entertainment; value: The cultural meaning of consumption; value: Delinquency, crime, and punishment; value: Notions of nation.