| Description |
xvi, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies / Joy Hendry -- 1. Time in the Japanese ritual year / Laurence Caillet -- 2. Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ryukyus / Patrick Beillevaire -- 3. The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan / Thomas Crump -- 4. The question of space: from Heidegger to Watsuji / Augustin Berque -- 5. Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making: an interpretive study / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 6. Time, space and person in Japanese relationships / Jane M. Bachnik -- 7. Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan?: the impact of tourism on a traditional Japanese village / Okpyo Moon -- 8. Death rites in Japan in the twentieth century / Jan van Bremen -- 9. A child in time: changing adoption and fostering in Japan / Roger Goodman -- 10. Gods, ancestors and mediators: a cosmology from the South-western Archipelago of Japan / Teigo Yoshida |
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11. The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages / Kazuto Matsunaga -- 12. 'Years of calamity': yakudoshi observances in urban Japan / David C. Lewis -- 13. Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries / D. P. Martinez -- 14. Science and religious movements in Japan: hi-tech healers and computerized cults / Mary Picone -- 15. Sakariba: zone of 'evaporation' between work and home? / Sepp Linhart -- 16. One over the seven: sake drinking in a Japanese pottery community / Brian Moeran -- 17. Models of performance: space, time and social organization in Japanese dance / James Valentine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069578
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| Author |
Hendry, Joy.
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| LC no. |
97043911 |
| ISBN |
0415172675 |
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0415172683 (alk. paper) |
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