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Unwrapping Japan : society and culture in anthropological perspective
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- Creator
- edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran and James Valentine
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1990]
- ©1990
- Physical Details
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- viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780824810504, 0824810503
- OCLC
- ocm20017136
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -