Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

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1. Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto

   Claiming a Right to the Past

   By Christoph Brumann

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation’s most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beauty of its townscape and natural environments, it is both a popular destination for tourists and home...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Disability in Japan

   By Carolyn S. Stevens

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Home and Family in Japan

   Continuity and Transformation

   Edited by Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Making Japanese Heritage

   Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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,...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

   Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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...

   Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria

   The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries

   By Yeeshan Chan

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
7. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

   The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   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 July 21st 2010 by Routledge
8. Community Volunteers in Japan

   Everyday stories of social change

   By Lynne Nakano

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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...

   Published August 13th 2009 by Routledge
9. Primary School in Japan

   Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education

   By Peter Cave

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   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...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Culture of Copying in Japan

    Critical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Rupert Cox

    Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

    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...

    Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge