Life in Riverfront : a middle-western town seen through Japanese eyes
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Life in Riverfront : a middle-western town seen through Japanese eyes
(Case studies in cultural anthropology)
Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  Chiba
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
LIFE IN RIVERFRONT is a unique case study that offers a fresh approach to ethnography because it looks at American culture as seen through the eyes of Japanese anthropologists. Every cultural anthropology student is introduced to papers on the Nacirema, a very foreign culture with many daily rituals and a fanaticism for cleanliness, especially as they prepare themselves for work in the morning. In truth, the nacirema is American (spelled backwards), and the lessons learned from seeing one s own culture through the eyes of a stranger illuminate the notion of ethnocentrism in a powerful way. While a major task of anthropology is to make the strange familiar and the exotic or enigmatic understandable, another task is to make the familiar strange so that one can see one s own culture in a new light. This case study accomplishes this and more.
Table of Contents
1. What Is Middle America and Riverfront?: Our Expectations and Reality. 2. Which Church Do You Go To?: Finding a Place to Live. 3. In Old Days Things Were Different: Ways of Growing Up. 4. The North Side is Polish Territory: Mobility, Stability and Ethnicity. 5. This is Our Way of Doing Things: Ethnic Manifestations and Identity. 6. Your Baby Will Be Half Polish: Changing Relationships with Riverfrontans. 7. Don''''t Spoil Your Baby: Educating a Novice Mother. 8. Share! And be Independent: Socialization and Social Management at a Child and Senior Center. 9. Boys Became Independent: Hard Work and Caring Among Men. 10. Epilogue: Our Hometown. 11. References Cited.
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