Interpreting Japanese Society

Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. She has 25 years experience specialising in the anthropological study of Japan and is the author of Understanding Japanese Society and Wrapping Culture

• Introduction, Joy Hendry; Part 1 Time, space and models of action; Chapter 1 Time in the Japanese ritual year, Laurence Caillet; Chapter 2 Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ry?ky?s, Patrick Beillevaire; Chapter 3 The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan, Thomas Crump; Chapter 4 The question of space, Augustin Berque; Chapter 5 Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making, Eyal Ben-Ari; Part 2 Kinship and social relations; Chapter 6 Time, space and person in Japanese relationships, Jane M. Bachnik; Chapter 7 Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan?, Okpyo Moon; Chapter 8 Death rites in Japan in the twentieth century, Jan van Bremen; Chapter 9 A child in time, Roger Goodman; Part 3 Religion, science and cosmology; Chapter 10 Gods, ancestors and mediators, Teigo Yoshida; Chapter 11 The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages, Kazuto Matsunaga; Chapter 12 ‘Years of calamity’, David C. Lewis; Chapter 13 Redefining Kuzaki, D.P. Martinez; Chapter 14 Science and religious movements in Japan, Mary Picone; Part 4 Leisure; Chapter 15 Sakariba, Sepp Linhart; Chapter 16 One over the seven, Brian Moeran; Chapter 17 Models of performance, James Valentine;