A companion to the anthropology of Japan
By: edited by Jennifer Robertson.
Contributors: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen.
Series: Blackwell companions to anthropology -- 5
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781405182898
Subjects: Ethnology -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: putting and keeping Japan in anthropology / Jennifer Robertson; title: The imperial past of anthropology in Japan / Katsumi Nakao; title: Japanese archaeology and cultural properties management: prewar ideology and postwar legacies / Walter Edwards; title: Feminism, timelines and history-making / Tomomi Yamaguchi; title: Making majority culture / Roger Goodman; title: Political and cultural perspectives on "insider" minorities / Joshua Roth; title: Japan's ethnic minority: Koreans / Sonia Ryang; title: Shifting contours of class and status / Glenda S. Roberts; title: Anthropology of Japanese corporate management / Tomoko Hamada; title: Fashioning cultural identity: body and dress / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni; title: Genders and sexualities / Sabine Frühstück; title: On the "nature" of Japanese culture, or, is there a Japanese sense of nature? / D. P. Martinez; title: The rural imaginary: landscape, village, tradition / Scott Schnell; title: Tokyo's third rebuilding: new twists on old patterns / Roman Cybriwsky; title: Japan's global village: a view from the world of leisure / Joy Hendry; title: Formal caring alternatives: kindergartens and day-care centers / Eyal Ben-Ari; title: Post-compulsory schooling and the legacy of imperialism / Brian J. McVeigh; title: Theorizing the cultural importance of play: anthropological approaches to sports and recreation in Japan / Elise Edwards; title: Popular entertainment and the music industry / Shuhei Hosokawa; title: There's more than manga: popular nonfiction books and magazines / Laura Miller; title: Biopower: blood, kinship, and eugenic marriage / Jennifer Robertson; title: The ie (family) in global perspective / Emiko Ochiai; title: Constrained person and creative agent: a dying student's narrative of self and others / Susan Orpett Long; title: Nation, citizenship and cinema / Aaron Gerow; title: Culinary culture and the making of a national cuisine / Katarzyna Cwiertka; title: Historical, new, and "new" new religions / Ian Reader; title: Folk religion and its contemporary issues / Noriko Kawahashi; title: Women scientists and gender ideology / Sumiko Otsubo; title: Preserving moral order: responses to biomedical technologies / Margaret Lock.