Author: Ronald P. Dore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520086289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The spectacular changes that have occurred since World War II, occupation, and the achievement of industrial parity is meshed with revealing portraits of how the hamlet is structured, how it works, and what it means to live in this most elemental and formative of all Japanese social entities.
Shinohata
Author: Ronald P. Dore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520086289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The spectacular changes that have occurred since World War II, occupation, and the achievement of industrial parity is meshed with revealing portraits of how the hamlet is structured, how it works, and what it means to live in this most elemental and formative of all Japanese social entities.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520086289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The spectacular changes that have occurred since World War II, occupation, and the achievement of industrial parity is meshed with revealing portraits of how the hamlet is structured, how it works, and what it means to live in this most elemental and formative of all Japanese social entities.
The Japanese Village Ils 56
Author: J.F. Embree
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136234543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This is Volume V of six in a collection on the Sociology of East Asia. Initially published in 1946, Dr. Embree's book is a description, based on direct observation, of the life of a Japanese village community. Its chief purpose is to provide material for that comparative study' of the forms of: human society that is known as social anthropology; but it should have an appeal to a wider audience of general readers as giving additional insight from a new 'angle into Japanese civilization.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136234543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This is Volume V of six in a collection on the Sociology of East Asia. Initially published in 1946, Dr. Embree's book is a description, based on direct observation, of the life of a Japanese village community. Its chief purpose is to provide material for that comparative study' of the forms of: human society that is known as social anthropology; but it should have an appeal to a wider audience of general readers as giving additional insight from a new 'angle into Japanese civilization.
Interpreting Japanese Society
Author: Joy Hendry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134691564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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. While living and working in Japan the contributors have studied important areas of society. Religion, ritual, leisure, family and social relations are covered as are Japanese preconceptions of time and space - often so different from Western concepts. This new edition of Interpreting Japanese Society shows what an important contribution research in such a rapidly changing industralised nation can make to the subject of anthropology. It will be welcomed by students and scholars alike who wish to find refreshing new insights on one of the world's most fascinating societies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134691564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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. While living and working in Japan the contributors have studied important areas of society. Religion, ritual, leisure, family and social relations are covered as are Japanese preconceptions of time and space - often so different from Western concepts. This new edition of Interpreting Japanese Society shows what an important contribution research in such a rapidly changing industralised nation can make to the subject of anthropology. It will be welcomed by students and scholars alike who wish to find refreshing new insights on one of the world's most fascinating societies.
Local Government in Japan
Author: Kurt Steiner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804702171
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804702171
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Folk Art Potters of Japan
Author: Brian Moeran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136796800
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world bring to bear different sets of values as they negotiate the meaning of mingei and try to decide whether a pot is 'art', 'folk art', or mere 'craft'. At the same time, this book is an unusual monograph in that it reaches beyond the mere study of an isolated community to trace the origins and history of 'folk art' in general. By showing how a set of aesthetic ideals originating in Britain was taken to Japan, and thence back to Europe and the United States - as a result of the activities of people like William Morris, Yanagi So etsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Sho ji - this book rewrites the history of contemporary western ceramics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136796800
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world bring to bear different sets of values as they negotiate the meaning of mingei and try to decide whether a pot is 'art', 'folk art', or mere 'craft'. At the same time, this book is an unusual monograph in that it reaches beyond the mere study of an isolated community to trace the origins and history of 'folk art' in general. By showing how a set of aesthetic ideals originating in Britain was taken to Japan, and thence back to Europe and the United States - as a result of the activities of people like William Morris, Yanagi So etsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Sho ji - this book rewrites the history of contemporary western ceramics.
Kurusu
Author: Robert John Smith
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
The Savage Wars of Peace
Author: A. Macfarlane
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores such matters as the destruction of war, decline of famine, importance of certain drinks (especially tea), the use of human excrement and the effects of housing, clothing and bathing on human health. It also shows how the English and Japanese controlled fertility through marriage and sexual patterns, biological and contraceptive factors, abortion and infanticide.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores such matters as the destruction of war, decline of famine, importance of certain drinks (especially tea), the use of human excrement and the effects of housing, clothing and bathing on human health. It also shows how the English and Japanese controlled fertility through marriage and sexual patterns, biological and contraceptive factors, abortion and infanticide.
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique
Author: Sonia Ryang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135995907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135995907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 19
Author: L. Bryce Boyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134889429
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone, P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134889429
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone, P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein).
Modern Japan Through Its Weddings
Author: Walter Edwards
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"A fascinating backstage look at the wedding industry, one which the author views as a window on contemporary values. While the book is written to rigorous academic standards, its lucid and witty style makes it appealing to the general reader."--John H. Boyle, "Eastern Economic Review." (Anthropology)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"A fascinating backstage look at the wedding industry, one which the author views as a window on contemporary values. While the book is written to rigorous academic standards, its lucid and witty style makes it appealing to the general reader."--John H. Boyle, "Eastern Economic Review." (Anthropology)