Unwrapping Japan
Subtitle: society and culture in anthropological perspective
By: edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran and James Valentine.
Contributors: Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953-; Moeran, Brian, 1944-; Valentine, James, 1948-
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: National characteristics, Japanese; Ethnology -- Methodology; Ethnology -- Japan; Japan -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism, and Japan / Brian Moeran; title: Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry; title: On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine; title: The feminine in Japanese folk religion / Teigō Yoshida; title: Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka; title: Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / Lola Martinez; title: Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran; title: Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari; title: Deconstructing an anthropological text : a moving account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman; title: Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland; title: Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi; title: Wrapping-up : some general implications suggested by the essays / Eyal Ben-Ari.