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

Contributor(s): Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953- | Moeran, Brian, 1944- | Valentine, James, 1948-.
Series: Routledge library editions. Japan ; v. 71.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011, c1990Description: 1 online resource (viii, 237 p.).ISBN: 9780203843994 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): National characteristics, Japanese | Ethnology -- Methodology | Ethnology -- Japan | Japan -- Study and teaching -- JapanGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No title; No titleDDC classification: 952 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism and Japan / Brian Moeran -- 2. Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry -- 3. On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine -- 4. The feminine in Japanese folk religion : polluted or divine? / Teigo Yoshida -- 5. Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka -- 6. Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / D.P. Martinez -- 7. Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran -- 8. Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 9. Deconstructing an anthropological text : a 'moving' account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman -- 10. Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland -- 11. Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi -- 12. Wrapping-up : some general implications / Eyal Ben-Ari.
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First published in 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : rapt discourses : anthropology, Japanism and Japan / Brian Moeran -- 2. Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon / Joy Hendry -- 3. On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society / James Valentine -- 4. The feminine in Japanese folk religion : polluted or divine? / Teigo Yoshida -- 5. Intelligent elegance : women in Japanese advertising / Keiko Tanaka -- 6. Tourism and the ama : the search for a real Japan / D.P. Martinez -- 7. Making an exhibition of oneself : the anthropologist as potter in Japan / Brian Moeran -- 8. Many voices, partial worlds : on some conventions and innovations in the ethnographic portrayal of Japan / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 9. Deconstructing an anthropological text : a 'moving' account of returnee schoolchildren in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman -- 10. Sea tenure and the Japanese experience : resource management in coastal fisheries / Arne Kalland -- 11. Festival management and the corporate analysis of Japanese society / Michael Ashkenazi -- 12. Wrapping-up : some general implications / Eyal Ben-Ari.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.