Japan Anthropology Workshop Series – serie
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75 produkter
Escaping Japan
Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, …
Care of the Elderly in Japan
Av Yongmei Wu
Inbunden, 2004
762 kr
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The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems of supporting them by a diminishing working population and a diminishing tax base. This book, based on extensive fieldwork in a Japanese …
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Av Wolfram Manzenreiter, Barbara Holthus
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with …
Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan
Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives
Av Swee-Lin Ho
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This book, based on extensive original research, presents a detailed analysis of the varying opportunities and challenges experienced by Japanese women with professional careers, an important category of the population in Japan, whose lives remain little known. It addresses many key issues, …
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses the cultural context of Japan, where tea-drinking has been culturally important, reports on the emergence of the new coffee shop …
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses the cultural context of Japan, where tea-drinking has been culturally important, reports on the emergence of the new coffee shop …
Inside a Japanese Sharehouse
Dreams and Realities
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 'sharehouse boom', are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are …
Inside a Japanese Sharehouse
Dreams and Realities
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses, which emerged in the 2007 'sharehouse boom', are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are …
Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan
Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including interview research with a range of practitioners involved in dealing with the …
Religion in Japanese Daily Life
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Are Japanese people religious – and, if so, in what ways? David Lewis addresses this question from the perspective of ordinary Japanese people in the context of their life cycles, and explores why they engage in religious activities. He not only discusses how Japanese people engage in different …
Escaping Japan
Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, …
Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
Av Rupert Cox
Inbunden, 2007
2578 kr
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This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at …
Japan's Changing Generations
Are Young People Creating a New Society?
Av Gordon Mathews, Bruce White
Inbunden, 2003
2504 kr
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This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of …
Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Av Lynne Nakano
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their …
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Av Peter Ackermann, Dolores Martinez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2504 kr
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This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the …
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Inbunden, 2006
2468 kr
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Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self. Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating book …
Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands
Av Arne Røkkum
Inbunden, 2006
2504 kr
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Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan and the outside world. This book presents an ethnographic portrayal of the people of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. In particular it …
Japan's Changing Generations
Are Young People Creating a New Society?
Av Gordon Mathews, Bruce White
Häftad, 2005
742 kr
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Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from …
Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
Inbunden, 2006
2512 kr
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It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’ systems of thought against a more authentic ‘Eastern’ alternative. Top scholars in the field of Japan anthropology examine, challenge …
Making Japanese Heritage
Av Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox
Inbunden, 2009
2512 kr
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This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic, …
Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an ethnographic analysis of cross-cultural social …
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
Av Peter Cave
Inbunden, 2007
2441 kr
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The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of …
Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Av Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism …
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Av Peter Ackermann, Dolores Martinez m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
910 kr
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This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the …
Home and Family in Japan
Continuity and Transformation
Av Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book …
Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Häftad, 2008
910 kr
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Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an ethnographic analysis of cross-cultural social …
Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan
Inbunden, 2012
2441 kr
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Based on extensive original research, this book explores the early educational experiences of foreign children in Japan. It considers foreign children’s experiences of Japanese schools, examines the special tutoring such children often have to improve their language proficiency, and explores the …
Disability in Japan
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the …
Japanese Tree Burial
Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death
Inbunden, 2014
2512 kr
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Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional family gravestone, perpetuating the continuity of a household and its identity, tree burial uses vast …
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
Av Peter Cave
Häftad, 2009
881 kr
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The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of …
