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Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...
Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge