Edwards, Ian <br/><br/>
World Cultures  Athropology 
Ian Edwards 
 - USA. ;  Oregon University :  McGraw Hill.,  2012. 
 - v,432 p. :  Col ill. ;  28 cm. 
 - Blackwell companions to anthropology ;  5 .
 - Blackwell companions to anthropology ;  5. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: putting and keeping Japan in anthropology /  The imperial past of anthropology in Japan /  Japanese archaeology and cultural properties management: prewar ideology and postwar legacies /  Feminism, timelines and history-making /  Making majority culture /  Political and cultural perspectives on "insider" minorities /  Japan's ethnic minority: Koreans /  Shifting contours of class and status /  Anthropology of Japanese corporate management /  Fashioning cultural identity: body and dress /  Genders and sexualities /  On the "nature" of Japanese culture, or, is there a Japanese sense of nature? /  The rural imaginary: landscape, village, tradition /  Tokyo's third rebuilding: new twists on old patterns /  Japan's global village: a view from the world of leisure /  Formal caring alternatives: kindergartens and day-care centers /  Post-compulsory schooling and the legacy of imperialism /  Theorizing the cultural importance of play: anthropological approaches to sports and recreation in Japan /  Popular entertainment and the music industry /  There's more than manga: popular nonfiction books and magazines /  Biopower: blood, kinship, and eugenic marriage /  The ie (family) in global perspective /  Constrained person and creative agent: a dying student's narrative of self and others /  Nation, citizenship and cinema /  Culinary culture and the making of a national cuisine /  Historical, new, and "new" new religions /  Folk religion and its contemporary issues /  Women scientists and gender ideology /  Preserving moral order: responses to biomedical technologies /  Jennifer Robertson --  Katsumi Nakao --  Walter Edwards --  Tomomi Yamaguchi --  Roger Goodman --  Joshua Roth --  Sonia Ryang --  Glenda S. Roberts --  Tomoko Hamada --  Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni --  Sabine Fr�uhst�uck --  D.P. Martinez --  Scott Schnell --  Roman Cybriwsky --  Joy Hendry --  Eyal Ben-Ari --  Brian J. McVeigh --  Elise Edwards --  Shuhei Hosokawa --  Laura Miller --  Jennifer Robertson --  Emiko Ochiai --  Susan Orpett Long --  Aaron Gerow --  Katarzyna Cwiertka --  Ian Reader --  Noriko Kawahashi --  Sumiko Otsubo --  Margaret Lock. 
<br/><br/> "A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society - past and present - in accessible language." -- Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781121764200 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004022308 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Japan.<br/>Culturele antropologie.<br/>Ethnologie--Japon.<br/>Antropologia cultural e social--Jap�ao.<br/>Etnologia--Jap�ao.<br/>Ethnologie.<br/>Anthropologie.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Manners and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Social life and customs.<br/>Japon--Mœurs et coutumes.<br/>Japan.<br/>Japan.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN635.J2  / C65 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.03/  / EDW