Japanese society
Subtitle: tradition, self, and the social order
By: Robert J. Smith
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Series: Lewis Henry Morgan lecture series -- 1980; Lewis Henry Morgan lectures -- 1980.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780521315524
Subjects: Social structure -- Japan.; Japan -- Social conditions.
Description: Before World War II, anthropological materials on Japan in English were practically nonexistent, with Embree's Suye Mura a lonely precursor of the flood of research published in the postwar years. Anthropology has been accompanied by Western scholars in other disciplines, and the readily available literature on Japan in English alone is now beyond the compass of all, save an accomplished few. The variety of approaches and differing interpretations call for guidance, and this volume provides that and more. -- Foreword.
Notes: Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-168).