ROBERTSON JENNIFER

Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Beschreibung

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. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nationalist research; eugenics and nation-building; majority and minority cultures; class and status; genders and sexualities; urban spectacle and rural 'undevelopment'; domestic, corporate, and educational ideologies and practices; the mass media, leisure, and 'infotainment' industries; women's and men's sports; fashion and food cultures; ideas of nature, life, and death; new and folk religions; and science and biotechnology. Collectively, these chapters not only demonstrate Japan's significance for anthropological research but also help make Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a reference volume for scholars, but is also designed to serve as a primary text for courses in anthropology and sociology, history, and Japan and East Asian Studies.

Autor

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Robertson has published many articles and book chapters on a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from the seventeenth century to the present. Her most recent research projects include Japanese colonial culture-making, eugenic modernity, war art, and comparative bioethics. She is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991), Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (1998), and editor of Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2004). She is finishing a new book, Blood and Beauty: Eugenic Modernity and Empire in Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1208g
• ISBN-13: 9780631229551
• ISBN-10: 0631229558
• Artikelnr.: 22438442

Rezensionen

"This groundbreaking symposium will serve scholars well as areference volume ... Challenging yet accessible, this is essentialstock for all academic libraries, and for reference libraries withany interest in disciplines spanned or in Far East Studies.Blackwell Companions are setting an admirable standard as theyblaze new trails."
Reference Reviews

"This is a handsomely produced volume in the recently launchedBlackwell series of companions to the major fields of anthropology.... Well-written and comprehensively documented."
Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Despite the magnitude of the task, Robertson hassucceeded in this collection. Taken together, these 29 originalchapters provide historical and theoretical

grounding across arange of subjects. The diverse approaches taken here offer insightinto a great variety of cultural aspects and social players, butarticulate a 'Japan' that eludes any claims ofhomogeneity."
Steffi Richter, Universität Leipzig

"This Companion provides amazingly wide coverage oncontemporary Japan. What's more, it challenges the very idea ofanthropology in interesting ways. Although written by experts inthe field, it will be of such great interest to students and othersnew to the field that it may well spark the imagination of the nextRuth Benedict in the making."
Kazue Muta, Osaka University

"A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a richcollection by Japanese and international researchers thatdemystifies Japanese culture and society. Challenging static andahistorical perceptions of Japan, it ranges widely across space andtime to provide an innovative and critical study of minorities,gender, culture, education, family, ritual, citizenship, andmore."
Mark Selden, Binghamton and CornellUniversities

"This is without doubt a creative, informative, andconscientiously argued book from which anthropologists and otherstudents of Japan will have much to learn."
Current Anthropology