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Title:

Unwrapping Japan : society and culture in anthropological perspective / edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran and James Valentine.

Publisher:

University of Hawaii Press,

Copyright Date:

c1990

Description:

viii, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Ethnology--Methodology.
Ethnology--Japan.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Japan--Study and teaching.

Other Authors:

Moeran, Brian.
Valentine, James, 1948-
Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism, and Japan / Brian Moeran -- Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry -- On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine -- The feminine in Japanese folk religion / Teigō Yoshida -- Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka -- Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / Lola Martinez -- Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran -- Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Deconstructing an anthropological text : a moving account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman -- Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland -- Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi -- Wrapping-up : some general implications suggested by the essays / Eyal Ben-Ari.

ISBN:

9780824810504 (alk. paper) :
0824810503 (alk. paper) :
9780719030604
0719030609

OCLC:

(OCoLC)20017136

LCCN:

89035666

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)