Lives in motion : composing circles of self and community in Japan
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Lives in motion : composing circles of self and community in Japan
（Cornell East Asia series, 106）
East Asia Program, Cornell University, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Shikata ga nai : resignation, control, and self-identity / Susan Orpett Long
- Reinterpreting mate selection in contemporary Japan / Kamiko Takeji
- My other house : lifelong relationships among sisters of the Hayashi family / Scott Clark
- Power in ambiguity : the Shidō Shuji and Japanese educational innovation / David L. McConnell and Jackson H. Bailey
- Logomotion : Shiranai Station -from JNR to JR / Paul H. Noguchi
- Kenka Matsuri : fighting with our gods in postindustrial Japan / Keiko Ikeda
- Caught in the spin cycle : an anthropological observer at the sites of Japanese professional baseball / William W. Kelly
- Constructing sushi : culture, cuisine, and commodification in a Japanese market / Theodore C. Bestor
- Autonomy and stigma in aging Japan / Christie W. Kiefer
- Formulating attitudes towards death : a case study of a Japanese Jōdo Shin Buddhist woman / John Barth Grossberg
- Eternal engagements : solidarity among the living, the dying, and the dead / Morioka Kiyomi
- The living and the dead in Japanese popular religion / Robert J. Smith
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From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese society by studying how people "compose" their families, their communities, and their own identities. Challenging fixed boundaries characteristic of institutional analysis, these essays comprise an anthropology of real people who age, who play, and whose lives speak to ours even over chasms of cultural differences and misunderstandings. The contributors are historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of Japan who engage these ideas in their research and who have been inspired over the years by the spirit of David Plath's anthropology of self. Part I includes essays by Susan Long, Kamiko Takeji, and Scott Clark which explore how the meaning of self is created through long-term engagement with convoys, those with whom one coauthors biographies. The second set of chapters investigates the process of creating circles of interaction, identity, and meaning beyond that inner circle. Keiko Ikeda considers the cocreation of individual and collective meanings among consociates of locality. The chapters by Paul Noguchi and by David McConnell and Jackson Bailey describe negotiations of identity among consociates within the workplace, while Theodore Bestor and William Kelly focus on constructions of regional and national identity. In Part III, chapters by Christie Kiefer, John Grossberg, Morioka Kiyomi, and Robert J. Smith bring us full circle to reconsideration of composing the self, but within the widest possible social universe that includes the aging, the dying, and the spirits of the dead.
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