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CAPTURING CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
DIFFERENTIATION AND UNCERTAINTY |
| By: |
Satsuki Kawano (Editor), Glenda Roberts (Editor), Susan Orpett Long (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£55.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0824838688 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780824838683 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 July, 2014 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
This book is designed as an undergraduate course reader offering up-to-date ethnographic research on contemporary Japan to enrich students learning. Based on data collected during the 2000s by eleven well know anthropologists of Japan, the collection explores current social phenomena such as wage work, small businesses, lifestyle choices, food, family and marital relations, childbearing, and aging. |
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What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to under- standing Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the professional housewife, managed the domestic sphere and the children, who were educated in a system that provided a path to mainstream success. In the past twenty years, however, Japanese society has seen a sharp increase in precarious forms of employment, higher divorce rates, and a widening gap between haves and have-nots.Contributors draw on rich, nuanced fieldwork data collected during the 2000s to examine work, schooling, family and marital relations, child rearing, entertainment, lifestyle choices, community support, consumption and waste, material culture, well-being, aging, death and memorial rites, and sexuality.The voices in these pages vary widely: They include schoolchildren, teenagers, career women, unmarried women, young mothers, people with disabilities, small business owners, organic farmers, retirees, and the elderly. |
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US |
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University of Hawai'i Press |
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