Unwrapping Japan : society and culture in anthropological perspective
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Unwrapping Japan : society and culture in anthropological perspective
(Japanese studies)
Manchester University Press, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 : polluted or divine? / Teigo Yoshida
- Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka
- Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / D.P. 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 / Eyal Ben-Ari