A companion to the anthropology of Japan

著者

• Robertson, Jennifer Ellen

書誌事項

A companion to the anthropology of Japan

edited by Jennifer Robertson

（Blackwell companions to anthropology, 5）

Blackwell, 2008, c2005

• : pbk

注記

First published 2005

Some copies lack publication year of paperback

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country

目次

Synopsis of Contents viii Notes on Contributors xviii Part I: Introduction 1 1 Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology 3 Jennifer Robertson Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities 17 2 The Imperial Past of Anthropology in Japan 19 Katsumi Nakao 3 Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies 36 Walter Edwards 4 Feminism, Timelines, and History-Making 50 Tomomi Yamaguchi 5 Making Majority Culture 59 Roger Goodman 6 Political and Cultural Perspectives on ''Insider'' Minorities 73 Joshua Hotaka Roth 7 Japan's Ethnic Minority: Koreans 89 Sonia Ryang 8 Shifting Contours of Class and Status 104 Glenda S. Roberts 9 The Anthropology of Japanese Corporate Management 125 Tomoko Hamada 10 Fashioning Cultural Identity: Body and Dress 153 Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni 11 Genders and Sexualities 167 Sabine Fruhstuck Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments 183 12 On the ''Nature'' of Japanese Culture, or, Is There a Japanese Sense of Nature? 185 D. P. Martinez 13 The Rural Imaginary: Landscape, Village, Tradition 201 Scott Schnell 14 Tokyo's Third Rebuilding: New Twists on Old Patterns 218 Roman Cybriwsky 15 Japan's Global Village: A View from the World of Leisure 231 Joy Hendry Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification 245 16 Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day-Care Centers 247 Eyal Ben-Ari 17 Post-Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism 261 Brian J. McVeigh 18 Theorizing the Cultural Importance of Play: Anthropological Approaches to Sports and Recreation of Japan 279 Elise Edwards 19 Popular Entertainment and the Music Industry 297 Shuhei Hosokawa 20 There's More than Manga: Popular Nonfiction Books and Magazines 314 Laura Miller Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation 327 21 Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage 329 Jennifer Robertson 22 The Ie (Family) in Global Perspective 355 Emiko Ochiai 23 Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student's Narrative of Self and Others 380 Susan Orpett Long 24 Nation, Citizenship, and Cinema 400 Aaron Gerow 25 Culinary Culture and the Making of a National Cuisine 415 Katarzyna Cwiertka Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics 429 26 Historical, New, and ''New'' New Religions 431 Ian Reader 27 Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues 452 Noriko Kawahashi 28 Women Scientists and Gender Ideology 467 Sumiko Otsubo 29 Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies 483 Margaret Lock Index 501

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA86314844
• ISBN:
  • 9781405182898
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Malden, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: xxiii, 518 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : GN635.J2
  • DC22 : 306/.0952
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Japan
  • LCSH : Japan -- Social life and customs
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA65226691