Interpreting Japanese Society: Anthropological ApproachesJoy Hendry Taylor & Francis US, 1998 - 291 ページ First published in 1986, Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in the field. In this newly revised and updated edition, the value of anthropological approaches to help understand an ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated. |
目次
the contribution of social anthropology to Japanese | 1 |
Time in the Japanese ritual year | 15 |
Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ryūkyūs | 31 |
The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan | 56 |
Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses | 68 |
Time space and person in Japanese relationships | 91 |
the impact of tourism | 117 |
Death rites in Japan in the twentieth century | 131 |
changing adoption and fostering in Japan | 145 |
a cosmology from | 167 |
The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity | 182 |
ritual belief and cho boundaries | 213 |
zone of evaporation between work and home? | 231 |
space time and social organization | 259 |
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